Complete Rationality

"Rationality is the willingness, not necessarily actually doing it but the willingness to hold any idea open to question."

I've never actually met anyone who could do that. It's easy to think you can, because the ideas that you are least willing to question are so familiar to you that you don't notice them. Perhaps a horribly abused person who can no longer trust being near another human being could claim to have no unquestionable faith. Maybe.

But there really is more to faith than just accepting ideas without questioning them. (In my experience I haven't even seen questioning and faith to be incompatible, but that's another issue). There is also an inescapable element of humility. You cannot be proud of believing that the Earth was created in 6 days, or that Jesus could make a man see by spitting on his eyes. But you can believe it. And you don't even have to be stubborn about it. It requires humility.

Everyone could be humbled just by looking at the world around them. But it's too familiar, too expected. I used to think of the miracles in the gospels as simply a communication device used to represent Jesus's unique relationship with God. But now I think they serve another role. They ask the reader to believe or consider things that are unnatural and absurd, to brake their mind out of things too common to notice so they can actually see what's there.