Comment by bpansky25 on July 25, 2012 at 2:42pm

"Faith and obedience are in the recipe for religious extremism."  "The sleep of reason produces monsters."

Seems fairly accurate.  The religions really do not provide goodness for people, they just perpetuate themselves.

I recently put up a blog post about dealing with the endless objections that religious people have to criticism against them.

Also, I'm not sure about the answer to "Do proponents of rationalism ever fall prey to its appeal and commit acts of extremism?"  I suspect that all humans have some of this capability.  What I'd like to point out is: 

-Pointing out problems inherent to religion, and

-pointing out problems with a few brands of that religion, and

-comparing religion to something else (like rationality)

are three seperate endeavours.  Though I do think that religion is defeated in all three cases.

Comment by Glen Rosenberg on July 25, 2012 at 2:59pm

bpansky25, I can not make out your blog because the color scheme is unfriendly. 

I agree with what you have written here except by clarification it can be argued that an extreme act is never rational. This in no way mitigates the innate capability of all humans to act in an irrational way. But when humans do are they acting rationally?

Comment by bpansky25 on July 25, 2012 at 7:18pm

Glen, thanks for that clarification.

Also, perhaps tonight I can move those blog posts over here to the nexus where you will be able to read it :)

Comment by Glen Rosenberg on July 25, 2012 at 7:20pm

Bp, you are welcome.

I muddled through. Interesting take. Never saw fractals used in that manner.

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