There Isn't a Bad Reason to Reject the Christian Faith, Part 2

Previously I argued there isn't a bad personal reason to reject the Christian faith. This argument is aimed at Christians who believe in the following Doctrinal Statement (DS): An omniscient, omnibenelovent, omnipotent God exists who sent Jesus to atone for the sins of all who believe in him and desires that everyone should be saved with no one lost (See 1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9). Other believers need not apply. Other beliefs that people have are not specifically relevant to my argument except as they illustrate how bad human beings generally reason about things. In the next few posts I'm going to answer some criticisms of what I had written. Be sure to read my original post to understand what follows.

With regard to objective reasons to reject Christianity there are a multitude of them. There isn't much objective evidence for the Christian faith at all, if there is any. On that subject I have been clear. Again for the record, there are many many good personal reasons AND good arguments that should lead reasonable people to reject Christianity.

The question for us however, is not whether there are good objective reasons to reject Christianity. The question is whether private, subjective, ignorant, irrational, rebellious and self-deceptive reasons to reject Christianity are good ones given DS above. My argument is that even these "bad" reasons for rejecting Christianity are still good reasons.

Bad reasons are good ones. Or, to state it better, 

bad reasons are not bad reasons after all, while good reasons are still good ones.

In my previous post I asked several questions about how human beings reason. I said that if any of a number of factors were to obtain then the distinction between having good personal reasons and bad personal reasons for what we believe basically flies out the window. I did not comment with finality on whether or not this is the case. Although it's clear I think the distinction is hard to pinpoint apart from the results of science, which is the exception, since it deals in hard cold objective evidence that eventually changes minds. I asked questions that need asked and answered. 

I think that what makes any given belief rational is a complex subject. Yes, yes, it involves sufficient evidence, but it's really interesting to me how rational people can basically evaluate the same evidence and come away with opposite conclusions. 

What I did say was this: "If nothing else, there are certainly many cases where we cannot even say what it means for some people to have good personal reasons for what they believe." So by providing a counter-example that it's not rational to believe the moon is made of green cheese, doesn't say anything about most all of the things reasonable people disagree about that are as clear as mud. And it says nothing about my particular argument either. When it comes to rational peer disagreements where it's not clear to everyone who is right or wrong, they are Legion (cue the biblical reference). Who's to say who's rational and who's not, apart from science anyway?

What we can say with virtual certainty is that all people who accept something as true also think they have good reasons for it, to a person, on a conscious level. That's why our abilities to reason are extremely bad. It's because of the haphazard evolution of the human brain. The only antidote to our poor reasoning abilities is science.

We're not talking about "any other false belief." Of that I am crystal clear. We're talking about Christians who accept DS. My argument is that all personal reasons are good ones when it comes to rejecting the particular doctrinal beliefs represented in DS.