atheists/rationalists/skeptics/evolutionists cannot trust even their own reason
Well, I don’t. But at the end of the day, some choices need to be made, and following my own reason seems better than… well, what is the alternative here… following someone else’s reason, which is just as untrustworthy.
Figuring out the truth for myself, and convincing other people are two different tasks. In general, truth should be communicable (believing something for mysterious inexplicable reasons is suspicious); the problem is rather that the other people cannot be trusted to be in a figuring-out-the-truth mode (and can be in defending-my-tribe or trying-to-score-cheap-debate-points mode instead).
Well, I don’t. But at the end of the day, some choices need to be made, and following my own reason seems better than… well, what is the alternative here… following someone else’s reason, which is just as untrustworthy.
Figuring out the truth for myself, and convincing other people are two different tasks. In general, truth should be communicable (believing something for mysterious inexplicable reasons is suspicious); the problem is rather that the other people cannot be trusted to be in a figuring-out-the-truth mode (and can be in defending-my-tribe or trying-to-score-cheap-debate-points mode instead).