What is the most rational view of God and the universe?
To say "I know what I don't know" is never rational. So the atheist is as irrational as the theist. As a planet full of people WE DON'T KNOW if God exists or doesn't. We thought we knew Little people (Hobbits, Leprechauns Etc...) didn't exist UNTIL THEY FOUND THEIR REMAINS on a Polynesian Island. Did some little people travel to Europe and Asia and spread the legend of their existence?
Truth is a tall order from a world full of people who don't know very much. Smart people are like the tall people in a hedge maze, they think they are at an advantage because they see the rough contours of the whole thing better than most, and then they rush headlong down dead alley after dead alley because intelligence breeds arrogance sooner than it breeds insight. The little people (religionists) meanwhile stand one on top of another and the most intrepid one gets a glimpse of something that even genius cannot fathom. These mystics go "behind the walls" so to speak. They come back with weird tales that get weirder and weirder in the telling, but often the lowly follower has a better grasp of the trip than his much taller scientific counterpart. But is it truth? Does it hold up to examination? Of course not. So the smart one rams into ten more walls getting angrier and angrier at the little know-it-all twerps.
Truth chasing comes down to that old adage "Would you rather be right or happy?" Beliefs that are useful are often not rational and beliefs that are rational are often not very useful.
To say "I know what I don't know" is never rational. So the atheist is as irrational as the theist. As a planet full of people WE DON'T KNOW if God exists or doesn't. We thought we knew Little people (Hobbits, Leprechauns Etc...) didn't exist UNTIL THEY FOUND THEIR REMAINS on a Polynesian Island. Did some little people travel to Europe and Asia and spread the legend of their existence?
Truth is a tall order from a world full of people who don't know very much. Smart people are like the tall people in a hedge maze, they think they are at an advantage because they see the rough contours of the whole thing better than most, and then they rush headlong down dead alley after dead alley because intelligence breeds arrogance sooner than it breeds insight. The little people (religionists) meanwhile stand one on top of another and the most intrepid one gets a glimpse of something that even genius cannot fathom. These mystics go "behind the walls" so to speak. They come back with weird tales that get weirder and weirder in the telling, but often the lowly follower has a better grasp of the trip than his much taller scientific counterpart. But is it truth? Does it hold up to examination? Of course not. So the smart one rams into ten more walls getting angrier and angrier at the little know-it-all twerps.
Truth chasing comes down to that old adage "Would you rather be right or happy?" Beliefs that are useful are often not rational and beliefs that are rational are often not very useful.
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