The Existence Of God In Kant's Critic Of Practical Reason

The topic of religion and God is perhaps the most diverse one of all in the field of philosophy, perhaps because it of all other topics dives the most in the domain of the unknown leaving the contributor and the reader befuddled with more questions than answers in almost every occasion. One of the philosophers who dealt most with that topic was Emmanuel Kant, and in his book “Critic of Practical Reason” which was published in 1788, I believe is where his most knowledgeable work is coined. In chapter five entitled “The existence of God, as a postulate of pure practical reason”, Kant describes how reason ultimately not only leads us to believe in the existence of a God, but in a moral law as well that governs our every action. Kant continues
This paragraph starts on the bottom of page 198 and continues until the end on page 199 (Please refer to the end of the document to read the selected text). We will begin by giving a small introduction to the concept of the moral law and the highest good as portrayed by Kant himself before talking about the duties of man and what makes him worthy or not to be considered happy in the eyes of God and religion.
In order to understand Kant’s view on religion we must first fathom and deeply understand what he refers to as a maxim. A maxim is, in short, a universal law meaning that for us they should be considered as a doctrine of what to do and not as a guideline of how to get there. For example, and treat this only as an example, a maxim would state not to kill an innocent person therefore we conform to this maxim and treat it as a fixed universal rule; Nevertheless, this maxim doesn’t tell us or even teach us how we should avoid killing innocent people or how to differentiate between an innocent person or a criminal. Also given that the maxim is a low that means it must be obeyed in order to achieve the moral law regardless of what impact this maxim has on you as a person. For example: donating clothes to the homeless in winter may make you feel wonderful inside, but
This stems from his belief that knowing what morality is and abiding by the maxims entirely doesn’t automatically grant you the key to access to happiness; in other words you have to be considered worthy and not all who abide by the maximums will necessarily reach that happiness. Hence the question that Kant wanted to answer was what makes a certain human being worthy of attaining the highest moral good? According to Kant “Someone is worthy of possessing a thing or state when his being in this possession harmonizes with the highest good”. The term “harmonizes” in this sentence implies that the moral conduct is the key to reaching out to the highest good, that conduct we previously labeled as virtue. Then Kant proceeds to explain how morality is not a guideline to happiness but a mere headline of what goals to work for in order to achieve the higher moral good. In other words, Kant claims that morality “merely imposes duties and does not provide us with guidelines for self-interested wishes”; therefore, it is surely not sufficient for a human being to have acquired knowledge of the necessary maxims that compose the higher moral good in order to be considered worthy, something else is definitely missing. Kant stresses on the need to have