Impersonal Religions

I have shown in the last section, the failure of secular thought to ground objective true knowledge. In this section I will demonstrate the irrationalism of the major other religions. As I have already dealt with Islam I will not cover it here. A religion or worldview that can not give a foundation for rationality is not a view that can claim any truths. If it cannot explain the existence of meaning it is irrational and meaningless.

As I have already shown if your ultimate source of reality is irrational and impersonal then at the finite level it will also be irrational. As irrationalism can not produce the rational or meaning. If it could there would be no way of distinguishing them from each other. If the universe is ultimately meaningless, then every single atom and object is meaningless. I will now demonstrate the impersonal religions that exist and reduce them to irrationalism.

The worldview of Pantheism (The universe is God) is impersonal. There is no mind in it or behind it. God is basically an impersonal force throughout the universe.
Religions that hold this view include Hinduism, and Taoism and the New Age.
Some may object and say that in Hinduism there is a trinity Brahma, Vishna, and
Siva. But on a closer examination there is no trinity as the Hindu gods are three gods, not one God in three persons. In other views the god of Hinduism is three different manifestations of the same god, which is also not the trinity. We must remember the importance of the doctrine of the Trinity. For without the Trinity, there cannot be an absolute rational personal communicating God of love. If you are lost, re-read it!

Finite godism is the view that god is not eternal and that he came into existence.
This means that "His" existence is based on irrational blind chance. This god’s foundation for his intelligence is the impersonal world of matter.

The Worldview of Polytheism is almost like the above, but here there are many finite gods, some stronger than others, but their cause for their existence is the same. Their ultimate environment is impersonal and irrational, leaving them as meaningless objects. The religions, which hold to this worldview, include Animism, some forms of Hinduism, Greek, Rome and Egypt religions and Mormonism.

The next view is Deism, this is a god who creates the world like a machine and leaves it. He has no relationship with it. He may be eternal, but no one can know him or know anything about him, as he does not reveal himself. We could not even know if there was a Deism god because it is beyond our knowledge.

Monotheism is the view that God is just one person, God is eternal but there does not have to be a Trinity. As there is no other religion that has a Trinity, we will class Monotheism as an Eternal God who is one person. This describes the view of the Jehovah Witnesses. There is only one person in the Godhead, so this reduces this god to a mono lonely, silent, irrational unloving god. As For their view on Jesus Christ he is just a god a finite creature. Because of the nature of this mono eternal god their "Jesus’ cannot have any relationship with his God the Father as he is impersonal.

The last view is Materialism, the worship of nature or the claim that all that exists is the material world of matter and atoms. This worldview has no external personal mind behind it and the universe we are told just popped out of nothing by chance and has evolved by blind fate ever since. This again is the foundation for irrationlaism.

The religions that include this view are Buddhism, Naturalism, and Atheism.
I include Atheism, as it is a religion, it is a "faith" a belief based on first principles, which can not be proven, in the power of chance. Chance cannot be a foundation for intelligence.