Christians More Rational Than Atheists, Says Atheist

The most astonishing irony in the history of Western Civilization is that most of today's Judeo-Christian conservatives are more rational than most of today's atheists. In the United States, Judeo-Christian culture is more pro-reason than secular culture.

Understanding this irony wrapped in a paradox makes sense of the recent debate between leading atheist Richard Dawkins and leading ex-Muslim, ex-atheist, now-Christian Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

More importantly, this understanding is the gateway to saving the West.

Sources:

Richard Dawkins vs Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The God Debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBsHdHMvucs

For a brilliant account, with voluminous documentary evidence, of the ideas held by America's founding generation, see this book:
America's Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It
https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Revolutionary-Mind-Revolution-Declaration/dp/164177066X/

Peter Boghossian and Richard Dawkins discuss the substitution hypothesis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MfBLPuwwdo

Ron's essay quoted twice in the video:
Judeo-Christian Conservatives Are Today’s Main Defenders of Western Civilization
https://medium.com/@RonPisaturo/judeo-christian-conservatives-are-todays-main-defenders-of-western-civilization-24a90f2a3146

Ron's book on epistemology:
A Validation of Knowledge: A New, Objective Theory of Axioms, Causality, Meaning, Propositions, Mathematics, and Induction
https://www.amazon.com/Validation-Knowledge-Objective-Propositions-Mathematics/dp/0999704168/

00:00 Debate between Richard Dawkins and Ayaan Hirsi Ali
2:41 Enlightenment is not a monolith
4:00 Astonishing irony
5:05 Christian culture incorporates Aristotle
7:54 Opposing ideas within the Enlightenment
11:39 Unpacking the paradox in epistemology
19:55 Ethics
25:15 Two ways to go wrong
29:00 Free will
37:17 Individual rights
43:56 Family
44:37 Sexuality
45:35 Recap of comparing Christians to atheists
49:00 Where to go from here
51:43 Substitution hypothesis and an alternative