ABSTRACT

This chapter is a comparative axiological investigation into the arguments for anti-theism (the view that God's existence would, or does, make the world worse), on the assumption that ubuntu is true. Arguments for anti-theism that are examined include the Meaningful Life Argument, the Privacy Argument, the Dignity Argument, the Genuine Sacrifice Argument, the Understanding Argument, and the Superior Atheist Worlds Argument. I conclude that all of these arguments are more difficult to establish on the assumption that ubuntu is true, than in the Western context in which they were originally offered. I hypothesize that this might be explained by the fact that the goods appealed to by anti-theists are typically intrinsic, while goods valued by ubuntu tend to be relational.