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> There are plenty of rational arguments for Christianity No there aren't. Faith, by its very definition, is irrational.
by driverdan 8y ago
> There are plenty of rational arguments for Christianity
No there aren't. Faith, by its very definition, is irrational.
- jki275 8y agoFaith is not by definition irrational, any more than hope is irrational. It's not provable, but that's different from irrational.
- thanatropism 8y agoThe subject matter of faith may be irrational, but faith-based communities have benefits that ratheists miss out on.
- yarrel 8y agoAll communities have benefits that those they exclude and other miss out on. But I'm not joining a communist cell just for the comradeship.
- mamon 8y agoBut the thing is: acting rational in every situation requires a lot of mental effort, knowledge, intelligence. Not everyone is capable of this, in fact it is quite rare (because probably you need IQ > 130). Now, the workaround for people who fail to act rationally on their own was to give them a set of heuristics that they could follow to achieve the same effect without too much thinking, a.k.a. religion. Of course some religions advocate totally irrational things, like human sacrifices or jihad, but some evolved to the point that following their teachings is a net gain for the society.