May this heathen rage a minute?

Every once in a while, I get so fucking depressed. I seem to live in a world in which so many people are... what, post-rational? pre-rational? just plain irrational? just plain liars? They are impervious to logic, but somehow they are able to use logic to turn black into white and vice versa.

People who try to view the world rationally certainly have more facts on their side than mere believers in superstition, and yet the true believers cling tightly to their beliefs. Why do they do that? And why misuse the tools of science to advance the unscientific? One could say that this is their last desperate cry, but sometimes I'm the one who feels desperate.