How can rational people believe in any religion?

[Anonymous]

The Physics of the big bang persuaded me. I am a published research scientist. Many of my colleagues were similarly persuaded by the math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Physics of the big bang persuaded me. I am a published research scientist. Many of my colleagues were similarly persuaded by the math.

Persuaded you to do what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t there only be one religion if religion is real?

Why would this be true?

If you mean "Shouldn't there only be one *true* religion?" Then yes. We agree. Like most religious people, I believe that mine is the only true one. Most religions make exclusive truth claims.

Can you rationalize this for me pls? If your religion is true how do you square this in your mind that other people’s religion is not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can non-religious people believe:

- Something arose from nothing
- Order emerged from chaos
- Life arose from non-life
- The personal arose from the non-personal
- Reason emerged from non-reason
- Morality arose from matter

Where did god come from?

You really think that a topic debated by theologians, philosophers, academics, etc, for hundreds/thousands of years is going to be answered definitively here on dcum?

If the earlier question posed was “how can you believe something arose from nothing” this would be the related question for believers.

Why ask it of others if you can’t answer for yourself?

I didn’t ask that question.

Atheists don’t have the answers either; they don’t know something arose from nothing.

I’m an atheist and I don’t know where I arose from but I can’t see that the bible or any other religious doctrine is reasonable.