Can a rational person beilieve in the Bible? or any religion? ( Archived) (154)

"I" disagreed. Excuse me.

What?! - no comment? What's happened. Did you fall off the horse Conrad? I expect more from you. Pick up your game.
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Galaxy

"Yes,if it passes those hurdles!Reason is man’s tool of knowledge, the faculty that enables him to perceive the facts of reality."

Which facts of which reality Conrad?

Maybe you could find an answer in Wiki or something. Post me a link.
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galaxy

God is not a non-living matter.

The human brain is capable of rationalising all sorts of things. I believe that what people believe is true for them and that the desire to be right is far greater than the desire to acknowledge even the possibility of being wrong. I'm not joking; I really do believe that if somebody really believes something it becomes the truth within themselves.

The example of Obama was a good one. He had faith in himself, he must have BELIEVED that he had a chance to become President of the USA even if rationally the probability of him succeeding say 20 years ago was probably fairly minute.

People can do great things if they have faith in themselves or another person or an idea or even a religion - that faith helps them do things that a rational, logical mind would say:

'Don't bother. It isn't worth the effort, plus the chance of what you believe in being true is so small it's not worth bothering about!'

Faith is VERY powerful - it can move mountains and also blow people off the face of the planet to who knows where!

This is real rude Krimsa. I am assuming this comes out of frustration or something. When did you acquire the power of perfect credibility above all others?

It seems the Mensa Grads have resorted to irrational responses, all round.
Highly presumptuous and pretentious, me thinks.

I've changed my opinion on the answer to this thread. I don't believe a 'rational' person can believe in the bible or any idea that might shatter the ivory tower of 'rationalism'. The West worked so hard to layer burden of proof upon burden of proof, to completely lose the ability to sense, in any way, shape or form, anything that falls outside its formulas of argument. Proof, therefore, verily, does not exist! The words have gotten in the way of just plain observing what happens around you. This is what Real science is.

The question, initially, is poorly posed. It assumes that 'Rationality' rules. This is a real bad assumption to make - especially if you want to answer the kernel of this question properly!
Pull the assumption out, and the gamut of what can be experienced and/or believed is opened up, completely. This is how things are. Of course, rational people can believe in religion and the bible - they can also irrationally not believe in them. It is irrational to believe you are in possession of all that can be known.

Up until the time that a person 'experiences' certain paradigms - they have no right to demand proof of the unprovable. What follows this is an expansion of possibility - without the need to prove anything to anyone!