The Un“reason”able, Irrational Aspect of Richard Dawkins’ Reason Rally – Writes A Secularist
March 24th, in Washington D.C. there will be held a Reason Rally. The point of the rally, however, has not so much to do with reason, but rather is another vain show of contempt for religion and religious values, and another opportunity for atheists, non-believers and people who otherwise disregard, hate and oppose religion, who find religion to be an obstacle to enlightenment, to further ridicule those who find comfort and value in religion.
Richard Dawkins, noted atheist, author, commentator and agitator of all things “unreasonable”, who will be among the guest speakers at the rally, asks the question, “Who would rally against reason”? The problem with that question is that Dawkins asks the question from an emotional point of view rather than the rational point of view he is attempting to advocate. And although his audience is, and will already be, persuaded, the groups of people Dawkins is directing his message towards (they probably will not be at the rally) will undoubtedly be unchanged and disinclined to accept anything he has to say on matters of reason.
. . . In the end, the Reason Rally will draw a crowd of however many thousands of people in support of belittling and ridiculing religion and religious values; which will rally support for a more liberal-minded outlook, for liberalism itself, and its own forms of, its own pathways for, that liberal indoctrination. What the Reason Rally will not do is answer the question: how do we, as “reasonable” and rational, intelligent, thinking human beings, use our sapiens “wise” abilities to the best of our abilities without becoming overwrought in emotions, and without becoming the kind of un“reason”able, irrational people Dawkins, and others, finds to be contemptible? In other words, the Reason Rally will showcase everything but reason itself. How is that reasonable, and how does that help the secularist cause?
