Peter Kreeft advocates self -brainwashing by letting the Holy Spirit into our lives.Affirm God. This no more than Blaise Pascal's advocating doing religious rituals .
We rationalists, on the other hand, with Robert Price in the " Reason-Driven Life" urge others to practice living without God.Instead of self-brainwashing, people learn that ti's their own inner resources that gets them going instead of faith.People can find other sources of inspiration.
We need no divine love and purpose and the future state t o live enjoyoable lives. Human love and our own purposes and this one life can suffice.
People would experience life without that superstition. Why should one than k God for finding keys ,especially with all the horrors?Coincidence rules.
So ti's with "answered prayer"- that post hoc fallacy at work. And people wouldn't rationalize about unanswered ones.
People would just use natural explanations without ascribing a superstitious intent behind them. There would then be no Lamberth's the God of the explanatory Gap- that elusive ultimate explanation and no God of Henry Drummond's the God of the scientific gaps. So, Aquinas' superfluity argument that God is superfluous as the ultimate explanation and primary cause holds- boomeranging on his own five ways!
So, people would hold to the presumption of naturalism that natural causes and expl nations themselves are that ultimate answer and primay cause.
Why then would any rational person want to self-brainwash into believing in that superstition?
Kreef, with Pascal, Alvin Plantinga and William James advocate for people to ignore the non-evidence for Him in this regard. And as Kreeft's twenty arguments are bunk.
Naturalism is forced, momentous and lively, leading to that more abundant life!
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