Assertion: atheism's faith | /r/HasProperty | irrational
Facets:
value: necessarily
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Whereas the former categorization suggests that Dawkins thinks that faith is necessarily non-rational or even irrational, the latter description seems to imply that faith is merely contingently at odds with rationality.
text: With respect to epistemology, critics point out that the New Atheist assumption that religious faith is irrational is at odds with a long philosophical history in the West that often characterizes faith as rational.