Religion, in my study of it, has been inseparable from concepts like belief, and faith. And i would argue that faith and beliefs are inherently illogical and unreasonable. So by way of the transitive property, religion is inherently illogical and unreasonable
Faith, is the easier to demonstrate a lack of logic. One can simply look at a dictionary. Faith, by definition, is a belief which is absent evidence.
Beliefs are a bit harder to deem as illogical and I am open to criticism and debate but I will explain. In my life I try not to have beliefs. Instead I try to have ideas. One might argue "semantics!", but I think there is an important distinction to be made between the two. People, all too often, fight for their beliefs, or even die for them. Beliefs carry a connotation of absolute and final. Conversely, no one has gone to war over an idea, and are markedly more flexible. In practice, I don't want to think that my ideas would ever warrant such behavior.
A logical religion would be a type of scientific deism. For example: Our galaxy has about 200 billion stars. It is common for stars to have planets. There are over 100 billion galaxies in our universe. There could also be an infinite number of other universes. Now in all of that does it seem likely that a bunch of psychotic apes called humans are the highest form of intelligence? No, it's more likely that something much greater and tremendously more intelligent exists (you might even call it a god).
A logical religion would recognise that there is an absolute truth and would care about recognising and defining it. It would not try to reconcile contradictory beliefs or embrace them all under some vaguely defined concept that they were all equally valid.
Based on how important Logic, and Reason were at the seminary I went to (10% of my courses), Catholicism, Anglicanism, and the Orthodox (all three were there) are good choices.
Logic, and Reason were specifically taught as these things are fundamental to the study of Theology. We had to be able to use these principles properly.
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Religion, in my study of it, has been inseparable from concepts like belief, and faith. And i would argue that faith and beliefs are inherently illogical and unreasonable. So by way of the transitive property, religion is inherently illogical and unreasonable
Faith, is the easier to demonstrate a lack of logic. One can simply look at a dictionary. Faith, by definition, is a belief which is absent evidence.
Beliefs are a bit harder to deem as illogical and I am open to criticism and debate but I will explain. In my life I try not to have beliefs. Instead I try to have ideas. One might argue "semantics!", but I think there is an important distinction to be made between the two. People, all too often, fight for their beliefs, or even die for them. Beliefs carry a connotation of absolute and final. Conversely, no one has gone to war over an idea, and are markedly more flexible. In practice, I don't want to think that my ideas would ever warrant such behavior.
A logical religion would be a type of scientific deism. For example: Our galaxy has about 200 billion stars. It is common for stars to have planets. There are over 100 billion galaxies in our universe. There could also be an infinite number of other universes. Now in all of that does it seem likely that a bunch of psychotic apes called humans are the highest form of intelligence? No, it's more likely that something much greater and tremendously more intelligent exists (you might even call it a god).
The teaching and person of Christ.
Both Bahá'í and Unitarianism hold that all religions are just "different paths" to God.
But the different religions are contradictory on basic points - so how is that they can be logically reconciled?
A logical religion would recognise that there is an absolute truth and would care about recognising and defining it. It would not try to reconcile contradictory beliefs or embrace them all under some vaguely defined concept that they were all equally valid.
The ONLY logical reasonable religion is Christianity.
A "logical religion" or a "reasonable religion" are oxymorons.
Religion requires a belief that supernatural beings or events are real.
A belief and practice needs to be able to change as science advances , religions are designed to resist this which is illogical an unreasonable.
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Religion is not logical. It involves humans. It is emotional and spiritual, not pragmatic.
Based on how important Logic, and Reason were at the seminary I went to (10% of my courses), Catholicism, Anglicanism, and the Orthodox (all three were there) are good choices.
Logic, and Reason were specifically taught as these things are fundamental to the study of Theology. We had to be able to use these principles properly.
Strangely enough, the Satanic Temple.
Edit: Oh, or pantheism. After all, the universe clearly seems to exist and there are no supernatural elements to pantheism.