Choose

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?

I think so, I used to think that it is irrational to think that we were not architected. Rationally speaking, I am not so sure. It could be a failure of nerve or imagination.

Absent a rational framework of belief, what is left to believe in? The purely subjective?

One thing is for sure, we cannot trust our senses. We choose something to believe and settle upon it. Why do we have to believe that something to be rational? We have a number of religions to chose from, if we were born in Iraq we most probably would have chosen Islam.

Our beliefs are strong enough to survive any attack, like Job :-)