First of all, note that you effectively just said that nearly all religious people are irrational. I won’t hold it against you, just realize that that’s the position you’re expressing.
I’ll pop in here and note that the general point of view here is that everyone is irrational, and even the best of us frequently err. That’s why we tend to use the term “aspiring rationalist,” since nobody has reached the point of being able to claim to be an ideal rationalist.
The highest standard we can realistically hold people to is to make a genuine effort to be rational, to the best of their abilities, using the information available to them.
That’s true. It’s not actually “rational” vs. “irrational,” even if that would make the situation so much easier to understand.
I hope you’d agree, though, that there are many people in this world (think: evangelicals) who don’t make any sort of effort to be rational in the sense you mean it, and even some who honestly think logical inference is a tool of the devil. How sad...but probably no need to worry about them in this thread.
I’ll pop in here and note that the general point of view here is that everyone is irrational, and even the best of us frequently err. That’s why we tend to use the term “aspiring rationalist,” since nobody has reached the point of being able to claim to be an ideal rationalist.
The highest standard we can realistically hold people to is to make a genuine effort to be rational, to the best of their abilities, using the information available to them.
That’s true. It’s not actually “rational” vs. “irrational,” even if that would make the situation so much easier to understand.
I hope you’d agree, though, that there are many people in this world (think: evangelicals) who don’t make any sort of effort to be rational in the sense you mean it, and even some who honestly think logical inference is a tool of the devil. How sad...but probably no need to worry about them in this thread.