Not only does this work when someone is trying to follow his religion rationality, it also works when someone is trying to follow rationality rationally.
In other words, not only can becoming more rational lead you to discard the cultural antibodies to religion without discarding the religion, becoming more rational can lead you to discard the cultural antibodies to all sorts of crazy ideas without discarding the crazy ideas. It works for non-religious crazy ideas as well as for religious ones. It even works when the crazy ideas are themselves “rational”.
(Of course, if you’re perfectly rational you would have no crazy ideas, unlike being perfectly religious, where you’d have lots of them, but human beings aren’t perfect. And imperfectly-but-more than-you-were-before rational can lead to crazy ideas.)
I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to decide which ideas that are popular here and are considered crazy by average people fall into this category—I’m sure everyone has a different list.
Not only does this work when someone is trying to follow his religion rationality, it also works when someone is trying to follow rationality rationally.
In other words, not only can becoming more rational lead you to discard the cultural antibodies to religion without discarding the religion, becoming more rational can lead you to discard the cultural antibodies to all sorts of crazy ideas without discarding the crazy ideas. It works for non-religious crazy ideas as well as for religious ones. It even works when the crazy ideas are themselves “rational”.
(Of course, if you’re perfectly rational you would have no crazy ideas, unlike being perfectly religious, where you’d have lots of them, but human beings aren’t perfect. And imperfectly-but-more than-you-were-before rational can lead to crazy ideas.)
I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to decide which ideas that are popular here and are considered crazy by average people fall into this category—I’m sure everyone has a different list.