This person calls himself a rationalist. How is it 'rational' to waste his time rabbiting on about things he doesn't believe in?

So then ttbn, logically extending that argument, your rabbiting on about climate change is not rational also?

Good to know.

yes so rational ttbn that he beleives order comes from chaos, life came from non life and laws don't require a Lawmaker. So rational that the scientific facts on how unhealthy the homosexual lifestyle is (not), how badly most kids do without dads and the fact that many non religous parents send their kids to religous schools seems to escape Max's attention. One gets the feeling that Max thinks he is smart enough to be God himself not having the intelligence to realise that He is reliant upon His Creator for his next breath.

Why are rationalists so obssessed with religion? Shouldn't they be concerned that any social change is reasonable? Any social change on the basis of religious principles should simply be ignored since its fundamental premise cannot be proven and so it has no reasonable argument.

Once you agree to this(as it seems rationalists do) then you are just rabbiting on about nothing unless you have some agenda in relation to religion.

It is irrational to engage with religious folk.

phanto it is because religious groups effectively are funded by the government.

If you didn't get the points from the article then just read runner's post says it all. Runner poster boy to the bewitched and befuddled.

Runner if your god is responsible for every breath we take then he must also be responsible for all the rapes and murders and kiddy fiddling too. I know the church is big on the latter but come on.

I for one would rather live in a world where we make our own laws where these things are wrong, rather then live in a world run by the religious believing in a dusty book where these things are exceptable.

Well what do you expect, when everything is faith based and not supported by a single scaric of reliable evidence or even a first person eyewitness account.

Instead we have storytellers emerging 50-100 years after the event, and quite massive plagiarism, plus a Jewish scholar (the Gospel according to John) altering the narrative so it conforms with a prophecy pertaining to a messiah.

Then there is sun worshiper Constantine's involvement/control and many pagan rituals included, that simply had no place inside esoteric Christianity.

Plus the emerging archaeological evidence seems to be refuting some of the stories of an exodus and therefore all that relies on it?

Compounded by a history of shameful wrongdoing and cover ups only able to be gotten away with till now, by the application of so called moral Authority. I believe in God and intelligent design, but not in organised religion (cultism) and all that is wrong with it!
Rhrosty.