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reasonable to believe in God?

Dao Hao Now

Active Member
Is it reasonable for a person to believe in God?

I'm not asking whether a belief in God is right or wrong...........

Only whether or not it is reasonable

What do people think?

I will provide my own answer to this question later
Depending on what you mean by “reasonable”.
Reasonable being;
“agreeable with reason” or “endowed with reason” being contingent with “reason”……

REASON:
1) a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc………
Possibly, depending on specific circumstances.

2) a statement presented in justification or explanation of a belief or action………
Possibly, depending on specific circumstances.

3) sufficient cause, as produced by a situation that makes an act, feeling, etc., obviously proper or appropriate…………
Possibly, depending on specific circumstances.

4) sound judgment; good sense……….
Subjectively possible, again depending, but probably not.

5) the faculty of rational argument, deduction, judgment, etc………….
No

6) Logic.
a premise of an argument…………
Not rationally

7). Philosophy.
A; the faculty or power of acquiring intellectual knowledge, either by direct understanding of first principles or by argument.
B; the power of intelligent and dispassionate thought, or of conduct influenced by such thought.
C; the intellect regarded as a source of knowledge, as contrasted with experience
A; No
B; No
C; Possibly

So in common vernacular, it depends.
It may be reasonable depending on circumstances which my be influenced by culture and education.

If you are equating “reasonable” with “rational”;
In todays world with the easy availability of instant communication across distances and reliable information and education………
The answer would be no.
 

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
Is it reasonable for a person to believe in God?

I'm not asking whether a belief in God is right or wrong...........

Only whether or not it is reasonable

What do people think?

I will provide my own answer to this question later.

I haven't found a theistic belief system that I think would be rational to accept on its own merits, considered in isolation.

However, I think social and cultural factors that exist in the real world make it very understandable that many people would become religious.

... so I guess it depends what you mean by "reasonable."
 

flowerpower

Member
Is it reasonable for a person to believe in God?

I'm not asking whether a belief in God is right or wrong...........

Only whether or not it is reasonable

What do people think?

I will provide my own answer to this question later

I think it's both reasonable and forgivable.

These days, I think it's actually more of a default setting than atheism is.

I mean, philosophically, it might stand as a stronger argument that atheism is a more default place to start from as a baseline (the problem with proving a negative and all that) but the belief in god is so infused within the human psyche (for AT LEAST several millennia, all over the world) that I actually think that it's humanity's natural state of being.

Even when someone is a staunch atheist, even staunch atheists have a habit of filling that spiritual vacuum with some other form of god-like idol.

If you want to extend it to political examples, all you have to do is look at countries that implemented state-enforced atheism to see that those nations replaced worship of god with a worship of their dear leader or worship of the state itself.

I'm not convinced that human's propensity to worship is eradicable.

Even the most incurious, dispassionate and chilled out people I know (with regards to religion and politics) seem to fill the void by being insanely fervid fans of professional sports teams, celebrities or treat their local bars like cathedrals and so forth.
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member

reasonable to believe in God?


Truthful religion is reasonable based on the norms, it is the no-religion people's whose ism/ianity is gone out of the norms, I understand, please, right?
One may like to read my post #40 in this connection, please.

Regards
 

PureX

Veteran Member
One's reasoning rests with one's understanding of certain words, what if one's understanding of those words is wrong, please, right??

Regards
The words are just placeholders for ideas. If we understand the ideas clearly, the wording won’t matter.
 
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