I recently wrote a post where I talked about how I'd much rather align myself with irrational people who care about empathy and compassion than with rational people who don't. I wrote another post after that about why I am drawn to perfect being theology even though I don't accept the claims of revealed religions. Since then, I have been taking a lot of notes and doing a lot of work at trying to write out the versions of each argument from natural theology that I find convincing. I haven't posted them yet because I'm going through them a bit slowly.
This past week I've been doing a ton of thinking about moral arguments for the existence of God, and that has recently triggered some further thoughts on the relationship between goodness and rationality. What I've discovered, I think, is that people who care about empathy and compassion and who strive to treat other people with dignity, even at great personal cost, are acting very rationally, even if they don't realize it, and even if they hold beliefs about the world that don't make much sense. In other words, there is a sense in which good people are far more rational than people who embrace violence and hatred.