Too Many Hypocrites in the Halls of Reason
The Odd Delusion
Written by Douglas Wilson
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
This is why
I could never become an atheist or part of the skeptic community. Too
many factions, divisions, snarls, petty fights, and so on. Worshipping
the goddess Reason, they descend into frenzies of irrationality at the
slightest provocation. I am tempted to say of them what Chesterton once
observed about the enlightened ones at the French Revolution. They
worshipped at the altar of the goddess Reason, when that was the deity
who had smiled upon them least.
But there are upsides, I suppose. Pope-toppling is always a fun game,
especially when the pope involved is silver-haired, magisterial, and
clearly engaged in a torrid love affair with his own Dignity.
In the meantime, despite enjoying that aspect of this junior high
food fight, we should all of us take a few steps back and observe how
skepticism and rationality would solve all our problems, if only we
would all bow our heads and ask strict empiricism into our hearts.
NB: some of the language in the link is objectionable. Don't print it
out to read aloud to your kids. Some in the skeptic community talk like
the first mate on a tramp steamer, only without making sense.
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