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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Certainly there are things I don't understand about it, but looking for answers and trying to figure it out just seems a lot more reasonable to me than saying that an invisible man in the sky did it.
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You know, boiling down a complex faith to "an invisible man in the sky did it" is totally disingenuous and cheapens it entirely. That is as dogmatic a statement as a creationist saying "evolution says monkeys had a human baby all of sudden and that's ridiculous". It's a deliberate misinterpretation of the other viewpoint in order to have an easier target to attack.
I took an entire university class on the existence and nature of God, so boiling it down to "an invisible man in the sky that does stuff" is obviously, you know, missing at least
some of the complexity of the argument.
There are limits to what rationality can tell us about the world. Things happen to me (and so I assume other people) that a rational explanation doesn't explain satisfactorily. I'm not ready yet to take the next step and say that the irrational part of life has something to do with a spiritual force, but I've wholeheartedly embraced that rationality is only one way to see a situation, and that some situations are best looked at with an acceptance of "this was not supposed to make sense".
That's what burns me when some of y'all start talking about religion. I find the spiritual ones are less dogmatic than the so-called atheists or rationalists, or whatever you want to go by.