Do we expect too much from human reason?

[Thoughtage]

Hi there to you too!

Please pardon this copy and paste, which I rarely do, but here's a post I recently wrote that may stimulate further conversation.

Somebody asked....

Can you list what you see as the tenets of atheism’s
faith?

And I replied....

Somebody makes a god claim. Such claims typically
attempt to describe the source of all reality, the
foundation of everything.

The listener analyzes the god claim with their human
reason. The listener concludes the god claim lacks
sufficient evidence. The listener becomes an atheist.

The foundation of atheism is the assumption that the
rules of human reason are binding upon the area the god
claim is being made about, all of reality, everything.

There is no proof that the rules of human reason are
binding on all of reality, an arena we can not yet
define in even the most basic manner.

Thus, the foundation of atheism is faith.

The assumption that the rules of human reason are
binding on all of reality is a very understandable and
common belief. But it is still faith.

Most atheists take the qualifications of reason for
this particular question as an obvious given. Thus,
they don’t realize they are operating from faith and
making an unproven assertion.

Thus, when atheists commonly say “I am not asserting
anything”, they are usually sincere, but always
mistaken.

It is also not proven that human reason is NOT
qualified for analyzing claims about the fundamental
nature of all reality. It’s pretty easy to make a case
that human reason is probably not so qualified, but
that’s just a speculative argument, and not proof.