ABSTRACT
In contrast to the as-if approach, the for-real approach cannot accept any procedure that regards God as a mental construct, whether on an individual basis or on a social basis. A main method for rationally reaching the existence of God is the strictly a priori or deductive method. A rational approach demands that the thinker adhere closely to the methodology of gathering evidence from things as they really are. In 1033, Anselm of Canterbury was born into a well-off family in northwestern Italy. He knew very well that, if God did not exist, then either the individual would become God or the state would become God. His famous definitional approach to the existence of God is found at the beginning of his Proslogium. This chapter concludes that he had every good intention in the world. In order to end up in the real world outside the mind people must begin in the real world outside the mind.
