Who's more irrational -- the religious or the irreligious?

At the time in their lives when most people are the most easily indoctrinated — approximately ages 18 to 22 — young Americans hear only one message: If you want to be a rational person, you must abandon religion and embrace secularism. Most young Americans are never exposed to a countervailing view at any time in their college life. (That’s why you should expose your college-aged child, grandchild, niece or nephew to this column.)

Yet, this alleged axiom is not only completely false, it’s backwards. The truth is that today the secular have a virtual monopoly on irrational beliefs.

One proof is that colleges have become the most irrational institutions in the country. Not coincidentally, they are also the most secular institutions in our society. In fact, the former is a result of the latter.

[There may have been a time where the secular was more focused on the rational than their counterparts in religious academia. Those days are so far behind us that they’re barely a living memory for anyone alive now. As Dennis says, to attend college these days is to be forced into an indoctrination that eliminates the rational for the aspirational — and even at that, the aspirational of the moment. — Ed]