Joe,

Right, sort of.

To be a 'rationalist' is to be someone who depends on rationality which is 
clearly illusory.

As someone who practices zen which is based entirely on experience I would hope 
I would be an 'experientialist' - or a 'realist'.

...Bill!



--- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote:
>
> Bill!,
> 
> I'd say the concept may be rational, although there is not an empirical 
> demonstration or proof of existence of such a being.
> 
> We know too that various Doctors of the Church did their darnedest along 
> rational lines, chief among them Augustine.
> 
> --Joe
> 
> > "Bill!" <BillSmart@> wrote:
> >
> > I don't see anything rational about the concept of God at all...Bill!
>




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