I was not claiming that I am always rational. Only that I choose when to suspend my rational faculties, for reasons of my own - not always rational ones, but always conscious ones.
Being completely rational is neither good nor possible. Being completely conscious is a goal worth striving for.
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I have perhaps not made it sufficiently clear that my initial abandonment of the religion in which I was raised, at about the age of 12, was for visceral, not rational, reasons. I listened to the stories of original sin, immaculate conception, redemption through crucifixion, and realized, more than decided, that I simply did not believe them, and that all the Sunday School teachers on the face of the earth could not convince me. I later, upon reflection, came up with many reasons to sustain that disbelief, and none to alter it. But the initial reaction was visceral, not rational. |
