“Embracing what is,” a four-part series: • As seen on TV: The new, improved hubris • Belief: The unforgivable sin • Rationalism cannot save us. • Hell has an exit. ———— ♦ ———— Rationalists insist that love doesn’t matter. Neither does hope. Neither does joy. “Rational” and “rationality” refer to the activity of reason. Well and good. “Rationalist” and “rationalism” refer instead to the dogma that one’s affect ought not be allowed to inform or influence one’s thinking. This i