Very Rational

I like supernatural stories. I especially like it when one of the characters is a "smartypants" atheist or scientist (which is usually the same thing!), and he denies the supernatural but is eventually proven to be wrong. Aside from the fact that stories and movies like this condemn the thinking of most of those in the movie industry, it is always great to see supernatural things taken seriously.

In stories like this, we often hear the antagonist say something like "there must a rational explanation". The assumption is that supernatural things are irrational. Yes, this is what the public schools teach today (most of them should be called "fool schools"), but in truth spiritual realities are completely rational. There is nothing irrational about the idea that our eyes cannot take in everything that exists. After all, we need electron microscopes to see a vast array of things that we know cannot be seen with the naked eye. Why would it be impossible that there are other things that we have yet to figure out how to see?

Considering the fact that a very large percentage of the greatest minds in the history of creation believed the Catholic faith, we should reject completely that claim that only scientific things are rational. That presumption is actually quite arrogant, because it presumes that science knows (or is soon to know) everything, and we all know that is not true. Science is limited by the same boundaries that our senses have, and there is nothing irrational about there being things that are not detected by those same limited boundaries.

Thus, when a "supernatural" explanation is given by someone, do not give in to the deniers who say "there must be a rational explantion." Instead head them off at the pass and make the clear (and quite challenging) statement, in all seriousness, of "that is a possible rational explanation". You might just help someone to get their head out of the pit of a truncated view of the world!