Why Does It End In Rationality?

I thought this was fascinating.

I woke up today to learn @CDCgov endorses using powerful drugs to induce nipple discharges in men who then claim they can “breastfeed”. PS: some of the drugs are then consumed by the infant. Yes, the CDC. Our tax dollars.https://t.co/q4A3gAhHw3

— Miriam Grossman MD (@Miriam_Grossman) July 6, 2023

She's reacting to this sort of thing.

In the end, I only breastfed my child for a few weeks.
I then had to stop because I had a cancer relapse and didn't want to poison my child.
Here's me on the bus to hospital for the 1st chemo round, feeding my child for the last time pic.twitter.com/6gh3RP6tLr

— Mika Minio-Paluello (@mikaminio) July 2, 2023

I watched Dr. Grossman's interview and discovered that some drugs do indeed have the side effect of men secreting fluids out of their nipples. It's completely off-label, but sure enough, something comes out of their breasts. One of the drugs she mentioned was an anti-psychotic medication. That seems a bit on-the-nose to me. Well played, God.

That's not my real issue, though. It's a single data point in an ocean of similar ones and it leads me to ask this:

Why did we think that if we abandoned Judeo-Christianity, we'd end up with a rational society?

All of the scientific atheists like Dawkins and Harris just blithely assume that rational discourse will continue once we've murdered the Sky Fairy. Why? All of them are in love with evolutionary processes, how could they not have foreseen this? The Aztecs and Dahomey were evolutionarily successful, building massive slave empires in their regions over the objections of competing societies. Both were only marginally rational.

So why have we assumed that something rational and benign will fill the vacuum left by Christianity?

Bonus Data Point

Making the case that we're still rational is getting harder and harder. Dig this thread. Here's a tidbit from it.

This has been an ongoing problem for some time, apparently. New Zealand wokists have been trying to insert " "Mātauranga Māori" into the curriculum, and give it equal weight to physics, chemistry and maths. I.e. not religious or cultural studies. Here's a taster: pic.twitter.com/3VT7wkBMtn

— Alexander McCarron 🗿 (@alexmaccaroon) July 7, 2023

Super Special Bonus Conclusion

This leads me to believe that the Catholic Church is the guardian of rationality. Our prelates, including Pope Francis and our own bishop here in San Diego, are folding like damp laundry in the face of the modern culture. Once that salt loses its flavor, as it were, who's going to replace it? A society indistinguishable from the Comanche?

“You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot."