Reason Prostituted

Saint Anselm made his contribution to the philosophical speculation of the concept of God with his ontological argument. He asked us to think in God as the Supreme Being: the most powerful and great being we could possibly imagine. We will have to reach a point when we have to think about this being as really existing, otherwise we weren’t thinking about the Supreme Being. And thus we reach the conclusion that the Supreme Being really exists. In other words: the existence of the Supreme Being is necessary by definition: she cannot not exist. If the existence of the Supreme Being is necessary, and we admit the possibility of her existence, we should also admit that she really exists. The ontological argument also teaches us something about the nature of God. The Supreme Being, in order to be really supreme, must have maxi-properties. She should be omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnibenevolent, infinite and perfect. Here enters the demolition atheist project, that pursuits to estab