Just Say "Insane" And Get It Over With

"The majority of Americans,...embrace some form of blind faith. But because that faith by its very nature requires a leap into irrationality, it is almost impossible to explain or to defend in rational terms.”

-- Stephen Holden, in a review of Bill Maher's "Religulous", in the New York Times.

Irrationality

ir·ra·tion·al·i·ty [i-rash-uh-nal-i-tee]
–noun, plural
1. the quality or condition of being irrational.
2. an irrational, illogical, or absurd action, thought, etc.

noun
The state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding