Religious People Of Being Irrational

Agnostics often accuse religious people of being irrational because the concept of faith is irrational on its face. From their perspective, it’s difficult to gainsay that accusation when many of those same religious people (far from all) then proceed to fight evolution education, discount climate change science and avoid vaccinating their children. These are really all grievances for the lefties who feel like facts are being overrun primarily because they feel that religious people don’t listen to facts; rather, they see religious people as only engaging in conversation on these kinds of subjects with the intent to convert a nonbeliever, which gets under some people’s skin. As problematic as that can sometimes be, it is arguably the utmost

People are against scientific reasoning in increasing numbers these days, and many institutions spend copious amounts of money to keep anti-scientific reasoning alive so that they can capitalize on it. For irreligious people, it’s sometimes unnerving and even frustrating when it seems as though any conversation you have with a Christian, regardless of the topic, always comes back to the thread of trying to convince you that God is real or that you need religion in your life. It’s judgmental and too condemnatory; it makes people feel like a hive mind is trying to control how they organize their own lives.

On the other hand, though, pro-science atheists, for example, do the same thing in their frustration but advocating for a different conversion. From the perspective of the Christian, it can seem like an invitation to speak on the subject when everything you — the atheist — say carries connotations that imply the big bang theory is valid or that evolution supplants Creation. Christians are sensitive to invalidation because non-Christians of all types are often challenging Christianity. Both sides, however, are reactionary, and both sides are equally committed to trying to convert the other

Even so, this is usually the point in the US, for example, at which conservatives might bring up school prayer, enraging liberals who don’t want to be forced not only to pray in school but even to be exposed to others praying in school. The point liberals get right is that it is, indeed, a manipulative encroachment on children’s ability to make up their own minds about religion and spiritual matters. The same is true of subjecting children of faith to classes in which the instructor’s not content to simply teach you the concept but is compelled to convince you of its