Prager on the Irrationality of Secularism (Pt. I)

Dennis Prager writes that the "secular axiom" that "secular people are rooted in reason, whereas religion and the religious are rooted in irrationality" is absurd.Despite the fact that "this is what almost every college professor believes and what almost every student in America is taught," it's simply not true.

Prager adds that,

Among the intelligentsia, it is an unquestioned fact. It helps explain why, after their first or second year at college, many children return to their religious homes alienated from, and frequently contemptuous of, the religion of their parents—and often of the parents themselves.

The truth is that today, the secular have a virtual monopoly on irrational beliefs...Here are but a few:

Only secular people believe “men give birth.”

Only secular people believe that males — providing, of course, that they say they are females — should be allowed to compete in women’s sports.

Only secular people believe that a young girl who says she is a boy or a young boy who says he is a girl should be given puberty-blocking hormones.

Only secular people believe that girls who say they are boys should have their healthy breasts surgically cut off.

Only secular people believe it is good to have men in drag dance (often provocatively) in front of 5-year-olds.

Only secular people agree with Disney’s dropping use of the words “boys and girls” at Disneyland and Disney World.

Only secular people believe that “to be colorblind is to be racist.” That is what is taught at nearly all secular (and religious-in-name-only) colleges in America today.

Only secular people believe that fewer police, fewer prosecutions, and lower prison sentences (or no prison time at all) lead to less crime.

Far more secular Americans than religious Americans believed that the Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins needed to change their names because “Indians” and “Redskins” were racist—despite the fact that most Native Americans didn’t even think so.

Who was more likely, secular or religious Americans, to support keeping children out of schools for two years; forcibly masking 2-year-olds on airplanes; and firing unvaccinated police officers, airplane pilots, and members of the military?

How many Western supporters of Josef Stalin — the tyrant who murdered about 30 million people — were irreligious, and how many were religious?

I think Prager is exagerrating a bit when he uses the word "only," but he'd doubtless be correct if he said that the overwhelming majority of those who hold to the views he lists are secular. In any case, there's more from Prager's column that's worth repeating so we'll look at the rest of it tomorrow.