| You resemble Plato in that you see a perfect democracy of "reasonable" people. Unfortunately, I have found that reason acts almost like a gift, or more or less an improbable feature for a human. Few have the ability to reason well. Reason applies to mathematics as well. The ability to act upon something for a reason, or for a "why is this" answer, can be seen in numerous mathematical problems and involve these reasons added to the formulas or equations.
Believing in god is not reasonable. Human reason asks why believe in God? The "reasonable" answer is that humans need morals to live, to thrive, or else population dwindles. Even evolution agrees that every living thing "wants to live," and wants to be alive, or if death is inevitable, it will continue the species through reproduction.
The human continues to ask, why believe in God?
The "reasonable" answer is that humans need to know. Know why, know what, know who, etc. A God provides these answers, thus settling this fear of "not knowing" aside.
Now, the next step, asked seemingly only by atheists, considers "is belief in God necessary?" This answer is, reasonably, no. Seeing humans have morals, God is not necessary. However, on the other hand, humans have not recieved omniscience, or such a desired form, and are therefore, by their own "reason," empted to believe in a God or natural diety to provide these answers.
A belief in God is thus unreasonable to the true philosopher of reason |