[ClearCase_guy]

The Enlightenment’s strict emphasis on Reason as the only way to comprehend the universe led inexorably to the French Revolution, Marx, Darwin, and our modern world of Secular Materialism.

How ironic that the Progressives of today, who unquestionably came out of that heritage, now reject notions of Truth and Reality. They believe that there is no God, we can make our own Truth, and that if a Man wants to be a Woman, that choice is open and available.

It’s a shame our society has not put greater emphasis on Faith and Morality, which may not lend themselves so much to Reason, but which do help channel Human Nature is more responsible ways.

[IronJack]

Reason fails because humans are not reasonable creatures. So much of what we do is based on emotion. Even if it was possible to remove emotion from our being, what would remain would not be human.

So we have to learn to govern our emotions, and to apply Reason where it is useful, and emotion where it is not.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Well said. Except that

Faith and Morality, which may not lend themselves so much to Reason, but which do help channel Human Nature is more responsible ways.

Is a bit pessimistic. As the full article notes, reason has never been excluded from Christian thought, to the contrary reason has flourished within guardrails under Christian tutelage.