Rationality in Religious Belief

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Rationality in Religious Belief

The obtaining of information is an inseparable part of human life, and

therefore in what ever one may do; one will always collect

information. To be of any value, the information collected has to be

reliable, and one does not seem to doubt the reliability of evidence

because they believe it to be logical, unless they are a sceptic.

Some say that religion is something we cannot prove because we

acknowledge religion through our feelings, mainly our feeling of

trust, or of wonder and awe – sensing that there must be a high being

or creator. Religious belief is to have an immense faith, but

religious faith is dependant on the fact that we must exist but

existence is alone, it does not depend on anything. Religious belief

is based upon the foundation that we exist, it is trying to explain

why we are here.

One may question how and why do religions and faiths explain

existence, and is the evidence that supports them rational and solid;

if ones proof is just based upon a personal experience another has

claimed, feeling or another’s scriptures then surely it is completely

uncertain and unproven. Therefore it seem illogical to base an entire

existence of faith into a religion, when one cannot state why they

believe in it as there are no world wide renowned arguments and facts

to back up an inquisition.

If a particular person believes that they have experienced a miracle,

or been visited or spoken to by God, then they can be definite in

saying why they believe in their religion, and to them this argument

seems completely rational and no matter what another being may say or

do to alter the persons be...

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...morals are merely adaptive or maladaptive, they cannot be either good

or evil, right or wrong -- just better towards preserving the species

of humans. It depends upon the individual who have a revealed

religious faith to determine one’s morals; an atheist or sceptic would

also have individual determination of morals and code of living. So,

it would seem to be that atheists and sceptics have as valid a claim

to morals as does someone with faith. This shows that with or without

religious faith most people would all be in agreement with having for

example morals and a code of living, they have come to the same

conclusions in very different ways.

Therefore in this case surely if it makes the world tilt towards being

a better place then having a religious faith may not need to back

backed up by a proven rational argument.

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