Blind faith in rational progress has become a theology as punishing as biblical religion

Evidence

This rationality descends furthermore into metaphysics, the same kind of traditional metaphysics that our secular world vehemently shuns. The stubborn insistence on the belief that our rationality and its resultant sciences can and will accomplish our ideals has developed into a theology, if not a myth, namely, like God, reason and rationality as conceived by modernity must be served irrespective of how punitive they are or might become. This is no different than the inquisition besetting biblical Job, who accepts God’s severe punishment in the hope of salvation. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 966 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Industrial bread production refutes Christianity more than rationalist critique does.; Scientific progress required expelling religious and classical textual authority — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1621; The doctrine of progress is better called a theology because of its Christian origins — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 754 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern faith in rationality has itself become a secular theology #corroborates (0.95) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 966