In this episode of Veritate, I begin where I began as an atheist.
Before belief, before revelation, before any claim that God speaks, I turned to Taoism. Not because it is the oldest religion, it is not. Hinduism predates it. I began with Taoism because it claims to describe reality before religion itself. No personal God. No commandments. No revelation. Only “the Tao.”
Using Taoism’s own writings, including the Tao Te Ching, I test that claim by asking the four questions every worldview must answer.
Who is God.
Who is man.
What went wrong.
How is it fixed.
At the time, my goal was not to find truth, but to prove that all religions were false. Taoism was the first system I put under that pressure. What it offered was calm, balance, and detachment. What it could not explain was justice, evil, or why human actions truly matter.
This episode does not assume faith. It begins in skepticism. And it confronts the popular claim that all religions are simply different paths to the same destination.
Because before you can ask which faith is true, you have to ask whether they can all be true at the same time.
