Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?

[Angrboda]

So, this whole, "you call anyone who disagrees with you irrational" is a strawman.

I think that was more directed at my line of thought, that lack of belief alone isn't sufficient without a concomitant charge of irrationality for the theist's beliefs. The author of the article in the OP makes a similar point. I think it's a fair point that when we say that someone's beliefs are irrational we don't mean it in the literal sense, but rather that it's a way of speaking when what we mean to say is that such beliefs could not be reasonably supported, and, that if they think they can, they are mistaken. But I think that's commonly understood. The charge of irrationality is an odd one because as we're coming to understand, we're all fundamentally irrational creatures, and it's more of a figurative complaint than a literal one.