Human beings appear to need some sort of explanatory principle for existence and the suffering that goes along with it. What has rationalism offered but emptiness and philosophies like existentialism or the emotional and ethical desert of materialism? You atheists keep looking backwards, usually citing the easiest target, the atrocities of the Catholic Church.

But the Church also made possible a rich and rewarding vein of art. So did Islam in its heyday. Buddhism, ditto. The arrogance of calling the cultural products of the major religions "garbage" says a lot about the atheist outlook.

Rationalism has given us heroes like Semmelweis and the miraculous edifice of technology that has improved earthly existence, but it has also failed to grapple with the amoral stupidity and hubris that led us to the glories of cobalt bombs and Sarin. The evil that produces religious barbarisms also corrupts the rationalist, but rational evil is the product of an absence of morality rather than corrupted morality turned against itself as with religious hypocrisy.

Your comment is typical of atheists, who are as dogmatic as any Imam.

Human beings appear to need some sort of explanatory principle for existence and the suffering that goes along with it. What has rationalism offered but emptiness and philosophies like existentialism or the emotional and ethical desert of materialism? You atheists keep looking backwards, usually citing the easiest target, the atrocities of the Catholic Church.

But the Church also made possible a rich and rewarding vein of art. So did Islam in its heyday. Buddhism, ditto. The arrogance of calling the cultural products of the major religions "garbage" says a lot about the atheist outlook.

Rationalism has given us heroes like Semmelweis and the miraculous edifice of technology that has improved earthly existence miraculously, but it has also failed to grapple with the amoral stupidity and hubris that led us to the glories of cobalt bombs and Sarin. The evil that produces religious barbarisms also corrupts the rationalist, but rational evil is the product of an absence of morality rather than corrupted morality turned against itself as with religious hypocrisy.

Your comment is typical of atheists, who are as dogmatic as any Imam.