It is not irrational to believe when that belief helps you deal with alcoholism or drugs or anything else that a ten step program requires you to "Acknowledge a higher power" to deal with.

It is not irrational if it simply helps you put your fears and ego aside and deal with the problems of the day.

Since it works for me and a couple of billion others it is not irrational.

"What are those things and why don't you think they are rational? Please be very specific. Let's discuss the relative merits of each argument."

I have done so and dealt with those things on this and other threads. I have no interest in having you try to defend other posters.

Of course God is not a proven fact. If God were apparent to all then we wouldn't need faith and without faith religion does not work and thus offers no benefit.

I have not been on these threads to try to argue non-believers into belief. I am on these threads to talk about what interests me.