You can rationalize anything, even the zany ideas listed below:   Abortion Blowing up an abortion clinic Political correctness Lawlessness Differences in beliefs between Christian groups Rudeness Anger Lack of forgiveness Malice Divorce Beating up a spouse Killing a spouse Not defending the Nation against killers “Bush lied” rants Fornication All types of perversion Man-made religious forms and rituals Man-made church governments Arguments for Socialism Claims that Darwinism is science The government taking over the role of church Socialism Judicial activism Euthanasia Wild Governmental spending Faulty logic age-of-the-earth calculations Faulty logic global warming calculations Faulty logic hole-in-the-ozone-layer calculations Faulty logic ecology Free speech, except for Christians and conservatives Relativism Communism Belief in rationalized supposition Looking to the intellect (rationalized supposition) instead of God Biblical error claims Manipulation of the election process Extreme zeal for politics—politics as religion Naturalism Humanism Atheism Materialism Naturalistic or materialistic interpretation of Scripture Adding to or taking from Scripture   . . . and this is just a partial list.  The human mind is capable of generating more nonsense than could possibly be recorded or anticipated.   How far out on the rationalistic limb people will go depends on the degree to which they want something to be true.