Research consistently shows that religious communities outperform secular ones on all sorts of desirable metrics—they are happier, live longer, have less poverty, antisocial dysfunction etc etc. To the extent that “rationalists” haven’t yet shown their ability to surpass, or at least match religionists there, they don’t get to claim the high ground on this.
But I do agree with you that mainstream religions aren’t a good fit for self-identified rationalists. There are good reasons for why they are on the retreat worldwide despite their clear benefits, and dogmatic attachment to sacred nonsense patently incompatible with contemporary understanding of the world is prominent among those.
Research consistently shows that religious communities outperform secular ones on all sorts of desirable metrics—they are happier, live longer, have less poverty, antisocial dysfunction
Then religious people are simply more instrumentally rational than the “Rationalists” , the “rationality as winning” is a definition which doesn’t restrict itself to superiority of a group which calls itself “Rationalists”.
Research consistently shows that religious communities outperform secular ones on all sorts of desirable metrics—they are happier, live longer, have less poverty, antisocial dysfunction etc etc. To the extent that “rationalists” haven’t yet shown their ability to surpass, or at least match religionists there, they don’t get to claim the high ground on this.
But I do agree with you that mainstream religions aren’t a good fit for self-identified rationalists. There are good reasons for why they are on the retreat worldwide despite their clear benefits, and dogmatic attachment to sacred nonsense patently incompatible with contemporary understanding of the world is prominent among those.
Then religious people are simply more instrumentally rational than the “Rationalists” , the “rationality as winning” is a definition which doesn’t restrict itself to superiority of a group which calls itself “Rationalists”.