Let us grant, for the moment, that something exists.
What does not exist cannot be despised.
How foolish it is to direct contempt toward nothingness.
To despise—to engage in the very labor of contempt—must therefore be grounded in a firm conviction of existence.
That which exists: God.
Should we not, then, understand contempt as a way of encountering God—
a confrontation that stands opposite to faith, yet still faces the same object?
One who considers oneself an atheist should not despise God.
For contempt itself is another form of conviction that He exists.