Atheism and rebellion

Dissension and defiance have always supported man to stand out and fulfill his sense of individualism. Mankind was always smitten by the heroism of going against the grain of any form of authority hovering over their heads. People rebelled against all figures of supervision, starting with their micro communities, their monarchs in the age of empires, their societies in the age of democracy, and eventually God in the age of humanism.

Rebellion is an intrinsic feature of man. One way or another, a man is constantly rebelling against something in order to survive and remain. He rebels against death and life; satiation and hunger; loneliness and company, sifting through opposite values in his search for self realization and actualization. That state of constant rebellion points to constant and arbitrary servitude, and Atheism is simply a false declaration of independence of man, and a hasty announcement of victory over visible strains and shackles, undermining the invisible

In our time of world peace and universal morality, there are no more threats to man on earth, as relativity got absolutized, and all bad died taking good down to the grave with it to the same grave. The only enemy left is the idea of absolute itself, as evil must be attributed to something, somehow. Absolutism concludes control and dominion, a notion that people usually find abhorring and repelling, because they can neither control nor dominate anything but themselves anymore. The question to remain unresolved is simple, Why to be controlled if they cannot control?

The maximum control over one thing equals the total loss of it over another. By this age's merits of man, man is totally deprived from all forms of external authority under the demonic banners of freedom of speech, world peace, tolerance, and human rights. The new man is totally detached from the world he lives in, and there is no point of accepting a biding understanding of his surroundings. The very same that happened by the end of the age of empires and the segregation of peoples on the basis of color and language. People had no extended sense of authority that goes beyond their borders, and the chain reaction of independence never stopped since.

The more time passes, the narrower individual authority gets. This devolution culminates to the delusive point of controlling one's affairs apart from all extraneous elements, then continues till man loses the control over his whole self in order to maintain the top performance of some of its facets. The dialect of authority would grow out of proportion till authority ends up as a synonym for slavery to maintain the obsession with control over smaller and smaller notions . The abdication man makes of his cosmic responsibilities for the sake of better life conditions can lead only to the assassination of faith in God, due to the impossibility of bearing its vocation and duty.

It began in Hungary

Among all the mental projections which the word “Hungary” is likely to trigger, non would depict the country as a dogma pioneer. One of the most obscure facts about Hungary is that it had an unprecedented finger print on the evolution of Christology. A purely Hungarian idea possessed an influence that was carried beyond the borders of its birth place, sculpting minds and souls of many around the globe.

Over four hundred years ago, a Hungarian man raised questions that had not remained as inquiries for long. David Ferenc, the former Calvinist, elected bishop of the Hungarian churches of Transylvania institutionalized heresy against the triune God. By pointing out the complete absence of biblical reference to the Trinity, a dismantlement of the components of the Christian God followed. Jesus Christ was to be thought of as a prophet, a teacher, but not in any shape or form a divine being.

Many continental theologians at the time carried out the same mission of revising Trinitarian beliefs. Following the Reformation movement in the sixteenth century, Michael Servetus in Spain challenged the trinity in 3 different books, refuting the eternity of Jesus Christ and solely associating this attribute to Father Facet of the Christian God. Servetus not only questioned the soundness of the trinity but also argued that mainstream Christology is a form of tri-deism. After being accused of heresy by Calvinists, Servetus was tried and burned on a stake in Geneva. Around the same time, an Italian theologian called Faustus Sozzini followed the footsteps of his uncle Lelio Sozzini in arguing that Jesus’s existence was not before his conception by Mother Mary. Faustus was the main theologian of a protestant church called the Polish brethren which held anti-Trinitarian beliefs.

Although all the aforementioned accounts of emerging Unitarianism had a notable impact, none of them could instill an institutionalized foundation that would help maintaining the debate over trinity in Christendom. Only David Ferenc had the inquisition-free atmosphere that allowed him to receive recognition for the first Unitarian Church. Under the reign of John II Sigismund Zápolya, Ferenc was allowed to retain and change his former episcopate from Calvinists to Nontrinitarians, and for the first time, Kolozsvár was evacuated from all its inhabitants except for the congregation of Ferenc’s church.

The revolutionized understanding of divinity which the Unitarian church presents reverberated in the relationship between faith and science. By debunking the claims of divinity of man, relativity was endorsed automatically, vaporizing the fabricated dissonance between faith and science. The church believes in a cooperative relationship between science and religion as one of its main declared doctrines, a thing that can explain the high relatively high number of Nobel Prize winners (11 winners) among its followers (around 300,000). Many people would not imagine that Charles Darwin was Unitarian.


Although Unitarianism had not garnered large numbers of followers, many of its followers have had a distinctive influence where they lived. 4 United States presidents were Unitarians: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, and William Howard Taft. Also Charles dickens and Ralph Waldo Emerson adhered to the same belief.

Unitarianism is a hallmark of the human story of faith, the defeat of traditionalism, and the success of the critical mind. The exceptional approach it provides booked it a seat among the World’s major philosophies, placing Hungary in the list of lands where the search for truth took place.