To Be Rational About Irrationality Thought
An argument for the rationality of religion. To do anything, we must first survive. So anything that helps us to survive is rational in the highest degree. Religion helps us to survive by binding us into communities of trust. Therefore religion, regardless of its nominal content, is rational. “It may be ‘irrational’ for people to have two sinks in their kitchen, one for meat and the other for dairy, but it led to the survival of the Jewish community as Kashrut laws forced them to eat and bind together” (2,800 words)
