The Problem of Monotheism's "God is Good" Denied by Atheism Concludes to the Evil of Atheism

Monotheism concludes that God is being.

Metaphysics concludes that there are the modes of being as one, something, true, good and beautiful.

If God is being, then God is good.

But God is being, then God is good.

Or, more accurately, God is itself being, then God is itself the good.

Atheism denies theism and therefore must deny that God is being and consequently deny that God is the good.

But for no thing to be itself goodness infers there is no universal cause of being, nor the universal cause of good in creatures.

But no universal cause of being infers creatures are not efficiently caused by being (and good).

But creatures are contingent and therefore efficiently caused.

For that which is contingent is not from itself necessary and therefore must be both brought into existence and kept in existence by an efficient cause.

As God is the universal cause of being of all creatures, God is then the universal cause of the good of creatures.

For creatures have being as an effect of God, who is being.

Then creatures have truth as an effect of God who is the good.

The existence and truth of creatures is therefore dependent upon God as the universal cause of being and good.

But God as the universal cause of being and good in creatures is denied by atheism.

But no universal cause of being infers creatures are not efficiently caused by being (and good).

And to deny the existence of the efficient cause of being and good in creatures is to deny the only sufficient reason for creatures to have being and good.

Therefore, because creatures have both being and good, atheism cannot provide sufficient reason for the existence of any creature, nor sufficient reason for the good of any creature.

But as all of the sciences are based upon the discovery of good as found in creatures that have being, then atheism cannot provide sufficient reason for the goodness of any of the sciences.

By atheism denying the existence of God as the prime being and prime good, atheism concludes that the being and good of creatures and the sciences are all real, but cannot provide sufficient reason for the good of creatures or science.

Atheism then has a large disconnect between its truth claims concerning the non-existence of God and the reality of the existence and good of both creatures and the sciences.

Consequently, atheism concludes to the existence and good of creatures and the sciences as brute facts that have no sufficient account.

Such a claim that the existence of creatures and science as brute facts only hides the problem with atheism that atheism concludes to a mindless superstition concerning the existence of anything.

For according to atheism, contingent things exist without an efficient cause.

But for contingent creatures to exist without an efficient cause is to posit a power within creatures that does not exist within creatures. Analogously, atheism is like positing throwing salt over one’s shoulder will cause good luck as an act of superstition.

But for a worldview to be superstitious is a worldview that does not provide sufficient reason for the existence of things.

But what has not sufficient account for existence has not sufficient account for good.

Therefore, atheism has no sufficient account for good in any science, including the science of reasoning.

Therefore, atheism cannot account with sufficient reason for atheism as a conclusion of reason.

Furthermore, atheism is a conclusion of reason with insufficient reason for the conclusion.

But what has an insufficient reason for a conclusion is false.

For insufficient reason is a lack of being and a lack of goodness.

Therefore, because evil is a lack of the good, then atheism is then always evil. 


Note - one may also provide a similar argument for the ugliness of atheism by substituting the good for the beautiful in the above argument. The argument title would then be changed to - The Problem of Monotheism's "God is Beautiful" Denied by Atheism Concludes to the Ugliness of Atheism.

The conclusion of the argument would be -

Therefore, because evil is a lack of the beautiful, then atheism is then always ugly.