OK. Let's say we have a person who has been declared clinically dead. The 50 best docs in the world said so. Tests of every kind were run. He was buried. He came alive three days later.
So it's "irrational" if we all believe that person who's walking around is "alive?"
If all 50 docs say, "Pay no attention to that body wandering around here." We're just to mindlessly mumble what the Wizards of Medical Oz tell us and think, "I'm an irrational believer if I concede He's alive?"
Really?
You believe in the resurrection because you accept the words of the witnesses who saw him. I do too, in part. But you didn’t see it yourself, and neither did I.
I accept the Book of Mormon because — among other things — I accept the words of the 11 witnesses, in addition to Joseph Smith, who saw the plates from which they were translated.
If simply believing the words of witnesses makes a belief “rational,” why is one any more “rational” than the other?