Belief in God is rational. Everything has a cause. So unless there is a first cause, then you would have an infinite regress. And then nothing could exist. Therefore there must be a first cause. Therefore God, the first cause, exists. QED.
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Hegel tried to take the place of Aquinas in solving the dilemma between faith and reason. [To Aquinas that was Christianity with Aristotle. To Hegel that was Protestant Christianity with Plato, Plotinus, the presocratics and Kant] However, Aquinas was wildly successful in his influence on all Christian civilization after him. Hegel in an ironic way had the opposite effect. he became the patron saint of the radical left and had zero effect on the right which went with john Locke, Montesquieu and the English system. Rav Nachman also had an ironic effect. He also wanted to reconcile the straight Litvak approach of straight learning and keeping Torah with no changes, no extras, nor subtractions. But the effect is the opposite unless people have a solid ground and deep roots in the world of the Litvaks, the Gra, and Musar. Besides Hegel, the person with the deepest but unrecognized effect on the Right is Goethe. Everything, every meme, every idea became part of Western vocabulary, and intellectual structure that you can hear in almost every person’s everyday conversation
