is it within one's intellectual rights?
2007-11-02 14:36:59 · 52 answers · asked by Eartha Q 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is rational to me, but does it need to be rational? There isn't much rational in my love of family, friends and my pets. Yet it is part of my being. Do I have a right ..YOU BET.
2007-11-02 14:40:49 · answer #1 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Rationality has no bearing in questions of God or Gods. It is a system of beliefs in an attempted rationalization of existence that cannot be proved or disproved. One can no more say God is real as one can say God is not real. It is not a fact, it is a belief. One either believes it or one does not and the outcome is the same. People need to spend a lot less time fortifying their beliefs and a lot more time finding ways that matter to help humanity survive. Anyone can kneel and pray, but it takes guts and effort to go out and make real changes. Pray all day, but the corn will not grow until you plant it. Action makes things happen. Wishing, hoping and praying may satisfy your soul but you will still have to pay the Internet bill when it comes.
2007-11-02 14:55:24 · answer #2 · answered by ToolManJobber 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
merely the actuality that the universe had a advent 2nd and technological know-how won't be able to clarify that's information of a writer. that's no longer information besides the fact that if that's information and perception purely demands information. A perception is an underlying assumption of reality, that's no longer an assumption that something has been shown to be authentic so we are able to have self assurance in God and nevertheless have doubts. A perception is a skill to an end and interior the case of Christians, that's a was hoping-for skill to purely appropriate excitement and happiness. We have self assurance in our writer as a fashion to certainly look for our writer. A perception, as adverse to an opinion, constantly finally leads to action. I contend that all of us carry some perception approximately our writer. If He exists, then he's the only guy or woman who can say why we've been created, i.e. our purpose in existence. If we invent our very own purpose in existence, then we've assumed as authentic that He may be wisely surpassed over. it rather is an unprovable perception.
2016-12-15 14:45:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, Eartha, you have unleashed a torrent of answers on this one.
Yes, recognition of God is the height of rationality.
In his landmark book Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis begins by observing that we all treat right and wrong as objective features of the world. Whenever we quarrel over who is in the right or whether an action is wrong, we presuppose an objective right and wrong that supercedes anyone's wishes or personal gains.
More formally, we Americans hold these truths be be self evident: That all men are CREATED equal; that we are endowed by our CREATOR with the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Note that all these claims rest on the work of a Creator who made us with special dignity and who established a higher, unchanging law.
If we reject the postulate of a Creator, we are left with a completely irrational world. We exist by a wildly improbable accident, and then we die. All our arguments over right and wrong mean nothing and express only our wishes and dislikes. We have no unalienable right to life, to freedom, or to our possessions, and if the government decides to send us to reeducation camps or to erase us from the map, there is no real injustice.
Now that would be an irrational world.
Cheers,
Bruce
2007-11-02 15:13:45 · answer #4 · answered by Bruce 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is rational to some people is irrational to others. If it makes you feel better and helps you to live a more productive and fulfilling life then I'd say that's a rational being. If believing in God brings you misery and hinders you from being happy (due to guilt or whatever) then that could be perceived as irrational.
I guess what I'm attempting to say in my ramble is... each to their own
:)
2007-11-02 14:44:25 · answer #5 · answered by Imogen 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If by being rational, you mean to be able to reason it out, I say yes, because God said in His Word, "Come now, let us reason together."
Furthermore, the Bible says to "Love God with all your heart, soul, MIND, and strength." God wants us to use our MINDS when we serve Him.
To many people are under the false notion that you have to shut your brains off to serve God, but that is FAR from the truth.
Faith does NOT preclude intelligent thinking. Faith is trusting what we do NOT see or understand, based on that which we DO.
There's not enough space here to go into all the details as to why I believe in God, so I'll just leave it at that.
2007-11-02 14:44:35 · answer #6 · answered by no1home2day 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Romans 1:18-20.
2007-11-02 14:47:31 · answer #7 · answered by Wayne C 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is totally rational to believe in a Source; it is not rational to believe that the "god" of any religion is that Source.
2007-11-02 15:00:26 · answer #8 · answered by Champion of Knowledge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Intellectual Rights? Which museum did you see that scroll in? I missed it in history I guess.
Ask yourself this. If you're not sure of God's existence, how about giving Him a try? Wouldn't that be more rational than going the other way and finding yourself sitting on a pile of burning coals??....OOPS!
2007-11-02 14:45:31 · answer #9 · answered by escher 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Without a doubt.
Think about it. Intelligence is one thing, it can be compromised as being given by a greater being or accumulated throughout thousands of years, but emotion is more. Many scientists claim that love is simply a chemical reaction. True, natural attraction is more chemical than anything else, and true love, anger, sadness-that has nothing to do with intelligence or chemicals.
So where does it come from?
I think I've made my point.
2007-11-02 14:43:32 · answer #10 · answered by Jess 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋