Materialism proposes that only material things exist and spirits do not exist. Yet materialism is itself only an abstract concept which is itself nonmaterial. Similarly, all abstract concepts are also immaterial, inferring that man is able to do immaterial acts and therefore has a principle of immateriality within him. In short, because materialism assumes only a material principle within man, the materialist must posit a material power within man that can do an immaterial act. Yet such a material power does not, in fact, exist, because only an immaterial power can do a proportionately immaterial act. By the materialist positing the material cause of an immaterial act, the materialist worldview is a superstition.
Yet coincidently, many materialists posit that Christianity with its demons and souls in heaven and hell is an ancient superstition invented by the uneducated to propose a meaning to life that is entirely false. For if God and men, nor angels exist, for no spiritual things exist, then demons, souls, God, heaven and hell also do not exist. Yet because man can do an immaterial act, man has an immaterial principle within him, as the soul. And as the soul is immaterial, the soul is immortal. Then after the end of life, the soul tends towards its ultimate end freely chosen in this life as the ultimate true good of heaven, or a false ultimate good of hell.
As man is a composite of body and immaterial soul, it is fitting that other creatures exist as created pure spirits, known as angels. Similarly, these spirits have free will and can also choose the true or false ultimate end. Also, the existence of God as a pure spirit is also proven through Thomas Aquinas' five ways. In short, the moderate realist worldview of Christianity is proven from reason, whereas the materialist worldview is in fact a false and superstitious worldview, that has a false understanding of man, and of Christianity.
The irony of materialism in relation to Christianity is the materialist is superstitious while believing Christianity is superstitious.
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