it’s not possible to be a person without a body.2 Again, God is supposed to be both omnipotent and also omniscient but, so some people claim, it’s not possible that there be a being who has both of these properties. On the other hand, there is what I’ll call the de jure objection, which also comes in several versions. Here the claim is not that a belief is false (although of course it might be); the claim, rather, is that it displays some other defect: it is immoral, or irrational, or foolish, or
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