How can rejection or doubt of supernatural things be a form of insanity?
Its quite telling that you left out a huge portion of my post where I make it clear that there is a “experiential basis” for faith. Let me correct you there. I never said that to doubt the supernatural is irrational. In some cases it is perfectly reasonable to reject a supernatural belief or any circular belief if the nature of that belief does not allow the absolute moral fulfilment of a human person, or does not make rational sense of the fact that I am a person, or is irrelevant to my existential fulfilment. To seek objective purpose is to seek the first cause, since that is the root of all being and thus the root of all objective purpose; the same is true of objective morality.
The nature of some beliefs are evidently more sophisticated and explain more than others. Its best to choose a belief that makes the best sense of things.
Beginning with my experiences, If I ask my self “what would be the right thing to do?”, then I must also ask myself “what is the nature of good”? Where does it come from? Does this or that religion or supernatural being make the best sense of its existence?
If you read my post again, then you will see quite clearly, I said that to reject the objective moral value of a living human child or human life in general is to be emotionally irrational. It is a denial which is ultimately rooted in a desire to decide for his or her self what has value and purpose (
to be ones own God). He or she is in denial because the person knows that to admit or have faith in the the fact that we have objective moral value will also require one to admit that there is an objective moral law for which we exist to fulfil. We exist for a moral purpose initiated by the first cause, the ultimate reality; which strongly implies that the nature of the first cause has, among other attributes, a personal intelligence. Atheism is irrational because it comes at the expense of ones life having objective meaning, moral value, and purpose. It is to reduce oneself to the level of cow dung, removing all moral distinction, in-order to achieve a degree of autonomy. It is to strip oneself of the objective moral significance and meaning of having “humanity” and the “dignity” which is expressed fully through the accusation of an indefinite and morally secure existence in the eternal happiness of heaven. The rational atheist makes these sacrifices, not because there is evidence against it, but rather so he or she can achieve some kind of pleasure. It is irrational because it contradicts are natural desire to be objectively, existentially, and morally fulfilled in truth. It is irrational because it is a denial of something which exists in human experience the the fact is, human life does appear to have objective value, purpose and meaning; and it is by that experience that we are able to understand that some objective acts, such as given up ones life for a greater good, are truly virtuous, and acts such as rape are truly evil, not just in our opinion, but rather it is the expression of the act itself to which we are spectators which manifests that meaning for us once we understand what a person is.
A psycho is absent of any belief in the moral value of another person. True objective “Mental health” implies and requires that one seeks only that which absolutely fulfils, actualises, and morally secures ones mental health in existence. Agnostic-Atheism with no possibility of faith, brutally opposes the existential objectivity of the possibility of humanity, while presenting a superficial subjective pseudo-moral representation of humanity in its place, fooling peoples natural sense of moral truth. When in fact the very nature of their beliefs limit such an ideal to being nothing more than a meaningless subjective irrational fantasy posing as truth.
If somebody says do good, they are telling me that I should do that which is sane and rational insofar as committing actions which do not contradict my objective fulfilment. Faith in the fact that ones life has objective moral value is the most important and rational step forward if one truly values the fulfilment of his or her own objective existence and perceives objective moral value in the lives others especially children. If you can see, like I can see, that raping a child is wrong, then we are admitting that there is an objective moral law. The fact that the acceptance of such a belief requires one to believe in a transcendence of physical reality (that the real world is more than physical) is simply a secondary fact and a necessary fact before we can rationally consider the objects, which those concepts signify, as having a meaningful root in objective truth.
