That's a good post. Though I would say that you can rationalise if you really want to. Aye, there's the rub. Faith (because of the tactics of organised religions with respect to children) has a habit of becoming very difficult, if not to question, to shake off entirely. A denial of that part of the intellect that really digs deep and really asks the critical questions (and demands evidence) is the upshot. Faith is both a comfort blanket (why would you want to shake it off?) and a strangling rope. It makes you not want to ask questions (the real questions). Well, life is fine out here in the atheistic sunlit uplands. It takes just one little extra jump to get there, that's all. No pressure!