Eram Sum Ero.
Oremus Mare.
I believe in you.
January 10, 2025
If Atheism was classified as a disability, could you be convinced to be an Atheist?
Atheism, the rejection of God, represents a profound void—a spiritual and rational disability that hampers the ability to fully engage with reality, existence, truth, and meaning. By denying the Unifying Principle of Things, which is the foundation for all existence, atheism leads to intellectual fragmentation, moral selfishness, and existential emptiness. While atheism often appeals to reason and science, its framework ultimately depends on the universals, meaning, and morality that only belief in God can provide. This paper will demonstrate that atheistic philosophies not only fail to offer a coherent worldview and leads to incomplete or suicidal ideologies but also ultimately prove the necessity of Rationality and foundation of all existence.
A. Universals as the Basis of Rationality
Rationality relies on universals—unchanging principles like logic, causation, and truth—that remain consistent across time and space. These universals are essential for making sense of reality and underpinning all intellectual inquiry. Any worldview that denies their existence undermines rationality itself and leads to a state of pretending that rationalizing anything is possible beyond convincing others that actions are unworthy of punishment.
B. God as the Rational Creator
God, as the Necessary Being, provides the foundation for universals. As the uncaused cause and source of all reality, God is immutable and rational by nature, ensuring the coherence and intelligibility of the universe. Without God, universals lack grounding, leaving logic and truth untethered and arbitrary.
C. Atheism’s Contradiction: Nominalism and Infinite Regress
Many atheists adopt nominalism as the most parsimonious explanation, denying the existence of universals and viewing concepts like truth and morality as mere human constructs. However, atheistic arguments often rely on universals, such as causation, to explain infinite regress. This creates a contradiction: atheism denies the very principles it depends on, demonstrating the incoherence of its framework. The contradiction is “P=Universals exist | notP=Universals do not exist.” If an infinite regress is possible because of an interdependence of dependents, then the interdependence of dependents is the necessary universal that nominalists must reject.
A. Implicit Belief in Stimuli
From the moment of existence, rational beings must believe in something. Even before the brain fully develops, the body operates on an implicit “belief” in its own existence and the reality of external stimuli. For instance, a fetus responds to stimuli in coherent and predictable ways. Without this implicit belief, the body would react chaotically or fail to function at all.