Jacoby & Jacoby

Jacoby wastes no time earmarking religious fundamentalism as one of the main causes of anti-rationalism in America. In just the first 20 or so pages, she indicates that those who believe in a coming Messiah only have beliefs that are "...dangerous fallacies." Yet, in the same paragraph, she contends for the Constitutional rights that allow the religiously misguided to have their particular faith - a kind of intellectual snobbery, since in Jacoby's opinion, atheism is the only intelligent stance on faith.