Believe What?

You wrote:

"This is a rational discourse, rationality and religion don't mix. One doesn't need to bother re-drawing Ptolemys circles to make The Bible fit, one only needs to believe."

Two questions:

1. Do you honestly believe that rationality and religion don't mix? By that, do you believe that one must completely suspend one's critical faculties to accept even the first piece of the faith puzzle?
2. Absent a rational framework of belief, what is left to believe in? The purely subjective?

Current song: None ... but I can hear the pot of chili bubbling on the stove. I have a chili recipe that seems to go over well with all who partake of it. The key is not so much in the ingredients, which are fairly standard, but in the process. The more I learn about cooking, the more I come to understand that the sequence and process is every bit as important as the things that go into it.