Religions are ipso facto irrational because they all start with some bloke making up a supernatural, superstitious, set of explanations for "Why?"
There's a bit more to it than that, but I think the search for A Grand Theory of All-Encompassing Causality ("AGTOAEC") explains a lot of nutty behavior, especially when the explanations are linked to self-interest.
Consciousness and its development, caused by the breakdown of the bicameral mind as our skulls became larger and our brains more complex and therefore more functional, have all lead to curiosity as to why we're here, a question I don't think we can answer and perhaps ought to stop asking given our inadequacies. Nothing but foolishness, death, and despair have resulted from our curiosity about the impenetrable. Our Islamo-Waco brothers are but one and most recent example in a long line of religiously inspired whack jobs.
We ought to concentrate on progress, phragmented photons, CDMA, love, etc., you say it a lot better than I do, rather than joust at the windmills. |
