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A third of Americans believe Trump’s presidency is part of God’s plan (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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A Christian (or, really, anyone who believes in predestination) thinking "X is Part of God's Plan" is perfectly consistent with their understanding of the world.

It's the Christians who don't believe this who are being irrational

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Those Christians would be inconsistent, but all Christians are irrational by definition.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Rationality is predicated on inputs and outputs. If you're surrounded by second and third hand accounts of divine mysteries, it isn't irrational to accept them as true absent some more compelling data. At least, no more irrational than believing in dinosaurs or the Big Bang Theory, without ever actually having seen a fossil or learned about the significance of background radiation.