(June 17, 2014 at 8:29 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Religions purpose is not to facilitate learning/ gaining knowledge.
In general, religion relies on pure rationalism. Emotion is a nice side effect : the effect of knowing something is right. Extremely weak theism, worthless theism in my opinion might just be some wishful thinking or nice feeling.
Extreme empiricism denies reason and is illogical. That's how I find atheism founded on a denial of rationalism to be. If you can entertain rationalism and empiricism then that's not you.
I don't know any atheist here who relies on strict empiricism void of rationalism. Do you?