What is rational about religion?

Sure there is, to control the masses, round up the ignorant cowards, and most of all MAKE MONEY!

What is rational about eating, sleeping, having sex and working very hard , just like animals?

Dogs and hog eat very nicely, and enjoy sex very nicely and humans are doing exactly the same thing. Is that rational? The animals have no choice but to follow the nature that they have acquired, but we can make decisions, either live like animals or to find out about God.

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No there is nothing rational about religion, because faith isn't rational its a belief.Rationally a person going to by a lottery ticket know that they have like a 1 in a 1,000,000 chance of winning but they have hope and faith that they could be that 1.

There is nothing rational about life in general. Humans think they are so smart when they are the same people manufacturing weapons against themselves and destroying their own habitat. What do we know!

My opinion is....what's rational about love? Nothing but people do it all the time.

People make decisions about their lives because it's what they think is good for them.

You don't buy into it....good for you....but your opinion is just your take on it.

I'm an atheist who isn't arrogant enough to tell other people what they should or shouldn't believe.

There's nothing rational about - that why everything about it is having more to do with "faith" than anything else. I'm a bit more Vulcan than that, though - I prefer logic to blind acceptance.

some religions are way more rational then others are particularly the philosophical ones anyway it all boils down to the individual themselves

Religion is rational or irrational depending on the written code. what is required is a relationship with Christ which is not rational but supernatural.

peoplel tend to forget that they need god and they control god. they put their hopes and dreams in a god that makes them feel less lonely but it wont make them right. they need love security and the illusion that they are important.

i don't need a god. i value and appreciate this life for what it is.

i think objectively and know religion was sought for control and power over a society. people don't get that.

Why should it be rational? How do you rationalize God? Rational reason is the world's way of dicrediting God. We will all know the Truth eventualy.