Evidence for Believing

[Anomalocaris]

No, belief can be rational, faith by definition is belief that is asserted without rational basis and without admission of its dubiousness because it lacks rational basis.

There is a rational basis to accept the possibility of revelation if we accept the rational arguments for a supernatural cause. Faith is belief that something is supernaturally revealed, and does not contradict known facts.

The existence of a supernatural cause is distinguishable from no supernatural cause solely by the observer's eagerness to become satisfied with accepting some faux explanation that really provides no understanding and is useless for any purpose whatsoever than acquiring a smug sense idiot complacency.

This is your asserted opinion. A supernatural cause opens up the possibility of revealed truth, which is the object of faith, which is motivated by a genuine desire for truth.

If he is easily satistfied with some faux explanation that really provides no understanding and is useless for any purpose whatsoever other than acquiring a smug sense idiot complacency, than he would call his faux explanation "supernatural".   He would exhibit his complacency by letting all his inquiry stop at "supernatural" and going no further.  

On the contrary, the motive of understanding is not limited. We just aren't capable of developing an epistemology beyond the natural (which is relative to our powers of perception), so our knowledge is limited.

No, a "supernatural cause" actually doesn't do anything by itself.    All it does in the hands of the person who asserted it is to let that person shout down the possibility of examining the so called "revealed truth" by more demonstrably reliable yardsticks to determine whether it is likely to be true or not.   

It does not open up any possibility whatsoever of getting closer to any sort of truth which could be verified by means less flawed than a person's fervent wish for something to be true.