Idealism is more Rational than Materialism

[Rational AKD]

materialism implies determinism (we have no free will), atheism, and the absence of an afterlife. idealism implies libertarian free will, theism, and the possibility if not probability of an afterlife.

I'm not sure how it implies these things, or how you have managed to calculate a probability.

well, if we are material objects then our thought processes are purely caused by material means. we have no control over these material processes since obviously matter can't control something it is controlled by. this means our thoughts are determined by material causations beyond our control which leads to hard determinism. a material God is incoherent since one of the necessary quality of God is primacy. so God cannot exist in a purely materialistic world which implies atheism. and if we are material objects, we cannot sustain existence if broken down which means we cannot have an afterlife.

as for idealism: since consciousness is fundamental, it controls everything. as conscious beings, it is coherent to have librarian free will, and the only way we wouldn't is if our thoughts are determined by another conscious being. since the physical reality as we experience it would be fundamentally mental, it could not terminate our consciousness since it is not the source of it. as for theism, I also explained that in the OP in objection 1.

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1. Monistic Idealism does not necessarily imply theism. it is perfectly compatible with atheism.
actually, it is not and this can be shown with epistemic investigation. there are essentially 2 different monistic idealist views, poly-consciousness and mono-consciousness. poly-consciousness representative of the general idealistic view that there are many distinct yet similar minds all experiencing the same world and are able to interact with one another. mono-consciousness is representative of the metaphysical solipsist view that your own personal mind is all that exists and any other minds that may exist are merely constructed from your own mind. concerning the poly-consciousness view, there is a need for explaining how distinctly separate yet similar minds can interact in a commonly shared world. the only coherent answer to this is they all have a fundamental commonality. given monistic idealism, this commonality between consciousness can only be a greater consciousness or super conscious to which we are all a part of. this super conscious would contain all minds and project the apparently physical world we experience enabling our interaction with it and each other. since this super conscious contains everything that exists in accordance with monistic idealism, it would therefore have full control over its own conscious states which in essence is full control over everything which would make it omnipotent. it would also contain all knowledge which would make it omnipotent. as you can see this super conscious is looking more and more like God and in fact they are ontologically indistinguishable. investigating the mono-consciousness view, or solipsist view, you can see striking similarities between that world and the poly-consciousness world. the only difference is in a solipsist world, you are the super conscious which is essentially saying you are God. I would say such a view is not reasonable since you don't have control over the world you experience or even all your conscious states; but that's another topic. the point is both views of idealism imply theism and there is no coherent alternative.

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