It is rational to take drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, fried food, sugar, and lethar

It is rational to take drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, fried food, sugar, and lethargy. It is rational to take gifts, hand outs, subsidies, rents, and extortions. It’s rational to choose myth over literature, literature over history, history over philosophy, philosophy over law, law over engineering, engineering over science, and science over mathematics. It is rational to tell white lies, grey lies, black lies, and to evil lies. It is rational to beg, steal, rape, murder, plunder, and war.

So in the choice to believe in god or gods, it is counter intuitive to choose gods. In the choice to choose gods or science it is counter intuitive to choose science. in the choice between narrative and calculation it is counter intuitive to choose calculation. In the choice between lie and truth it is counter intuitive to choose truth.

When engaged in deception of the self or others it is rational to state the non-demonstrable rather than the demonstrable.

Pascal’s wager is inaccurate. “It is only rational to hedge a belief in gods if one thinks and acts as if none exists.”

The purpose of religion is anti-social: to prevent you from reason. Only a demon would demand and command as Jehovah.

—“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”— Aurelius (a Stoic)