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Godless Societies are as Irrational as Religious Ones
Transhuman glory and the existential purpose of all cultures
By targeting the most simple-minded religious fundamentalists, New Atheists left the impression that theistic religion makes for an especially irrational and thus irresponsible, dangerous culture.
Just think of some titles of books by the four leaders of that mass-media-created fad, known as “New Atheism,” a movement that subsequently split up due to politicization, or infection by the wider culture war during the rise of Trumpian fascism. I’m thinking of books like The God Delusion, The End of Faith, and Breaking the Spell.
The idea, of course, is that theism is thoroughly irrational. Indeed, theism is archaic but also deliberately irrational since a religious creed’s absurdity is supposed to test the adherents’ loyalty to the thought leaders. Thus, religion rests on delusions, faith, a spell, or obsequious submission to bogus authorities. Even if the theist submits to human priests rather than a deity directly, there are no human experts on God or anything supposedly supernatural.
Theism’s irrationality
Now, theism is thoroughly irrational. I’ve argued as much in literally hundreds of articles. Theism’s irrationality shouldn’t be so…
