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Getting a Rational Grip on Religion

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Simply telling me to believe in religion is not enough to convince me. Tell me where it came from, what its purpose originated as. Why aren't these questions asked more widely by the faithful?
mookster_07

2 responses // Getting a Rational Grip on Religion

  • Can you have a "rational" grip on religion?
    It seems the god convo always breaks down in the same place:
    Prove it exists.
    No, you prove it DOESN'T exist.
    You can give religious people all the evidence why god PROBABLY DOESN'T exist, but that's not good enough, because believers have faith and faith trumps things like logic and evidence.

    I think that religion came from a need to explain our world to ourselves, explain why things happened. Back in the day this may have been helpful, and even helped start science on it's path- but that is no longer true today.

    Some people say that science and religion can be reconciled, but I don't know how. Maybe if you are willing to have the ultra flake out "sure, god is whatever you want it to be" mentality, but that still doesn't seem rational to me.
    DeliaTheArtist
  • The belief in a god (religion is something different), is inherently irrational because it lacks any sense of empirical evidence. also, if anyone tells you that personal experience is empirical they are ignorant to what empirical means.
    AtticusSimonFinch

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