[discreteevent]

Maybe one can see religion as simply a rational response to the absurdity of life as described in the article. Life is patently absurd and yet we are rational. Why is that? We don't need to be. The answer for many is that there must be something more. For others the something more is itself absurd. But it doesn't mean that it is an irrational response. Its quite the opposite. It's an attempt to make sense of something that, from a broad perspective, is an assault to our rationality

[aikah]

> Maybe one can see religion as simply a rational response to the absurdity of life

The problem is that religion doesn't answer anything(or gives absurd answers,backed by nothing but faith and fishy philosophy),isn't rational because it is not fasifiable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability

What is clearly absurd is religion.

[vlucas]

There are tons of things that are falsifiable about the Bible and Christianity in particular. The Bible - unlike most other religious texts - gives many historic accounts of events, cities, places, timelines, people, kingdoms, lineages, etc. that are all quite easily verifiable.

http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2013/07/christianity-t...

[aikah]

You misunderstand the concept of Falsifiability. It.It isn't about whether something is verifiable or not. But what it would take for a fact to be dismissed or not. It's not about whether a fact is true or not. For instance, the "fact" that Mohammed talked to angel Gabriel,which would imply angels therefore god exists according to Mohammed isn't falsifiable. You can't test that, or experience that.

It isn't about the holy books being full of inaccuracies, historians know they totally are full of shit already,from an historical point of view.

[vlucas]

This is not unique to religion. We can't test or falsify the multiverse theory, time paradoxes, any naturalistic explanation of the origin of life, or any number of other scientific theories either.

[aikah]

Sure,that's why they are not scientific facts. But merely philosophy IE pure reasoning which doesn't produce any useful result.