Faith and Reason

The blog Conservative Christian has an interesting post on Religion and Reason (I want to record the link for future reference). I used to hold the politically correct view that Christianity is nothing more than vain superstition, and that for society to progress we needed to wipe religion from existence.

I am now of the opinion that things are much more complex. My personal experience has shown that many of the people claiming to be progressive and anti-religion have an apparently irrational view of life. Conversely, I've known many people who were deeply religious, but were extremely rational.

Undoubtedly, there are some extremely manipulative and irrational religions. The statement that religious people are inherently rational is as wrong as the statement that all religious people are inherently irrational.

The more that people stand up and talk about the reasonable aspects of their religion is a good thing.