Dawkins Is Wrong. Religion Is Rational

[Demo_Chris]

88. No, religion is not rational.

It is the very definition of irrational.

Humans are ONLY able to survive through the application of our best rational problem solving to the world we exist in. We experience the world, the real world, through our senses, and then determine how best to proceed from there, with the goal being our survival. It is our REASON which tells us that moving cars crush us and that boiling water burns us. It is our reason which tells us that paint thinner is not a good substitute for mommy's milk, and that Tigers are best avoided. Our ability to survive as individuals, societies, and even a species is directly proportional to how well we percieve, understand, and react to the world we live in.

Religion requires that we dispense with this process. It tells us that the world is not as we percieve it and understand it. Worse, it demands obedience to the principle that the world and universe cannot be understood, and that even attempting to do so is a moral failure. Rational thought, the very thing which allows us to survive, becomes a crime. This is the true evil of religion.

Where our reason has brought us an understanding of the universe which stretches from the tiniest particles and all the way back to the edge of the beginnings of time itself, and even beyond. It has brought us medicines and airplanes and space telescopes and even the computer you are reading this on. Religion continues to contribute what it always has and no more: ignorance, guilt, and irrationality.

Fantasy and imagination are gifts when we label them as such. Some might one day be real, others exist already and forever in the imagination of the reader.

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

or...

"The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home."

or....

"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter."