I find it disheartening that so many people, regardless of religious belief or lack thereof, cannot or will not follow simple trains of reasoning. At this point it isn’t even understanding logic, they seem to disregard cause/effect and observable reality in favor of their positions.

My biggest disappointment is people who cannot understand that any necessary consequence of a position they support is something they are supporting. If you support, for instance, a law that will guarantee some innocent people being murdered, you support the murder of those innocents. Otherwise, you’d say “no, we can’t have that law”. If you support it as an unwanted price for something you feel you need, it’s still something you support. “It’s not good, but it’s the price we pay to have this thing I want” is supporting it while acknowledging it isn’t good.

That single thing is so prevalent that it makes it nearly impossible to discuss actually changing things for the “better”, whatever that means, with people who think things must be a certain way or they’re somehow wrong. And it’s not the only example of the lack of basic reasoning skills, they’re everywhere.