Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.