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loquitur's description is apt, considering some of the most celebrated rationalists were devout Christians. They were certainly coming from different premises than Willravel is.
A good way to describe rationalism is as an exercise of logic rather than dependence on the empirical to uncover knowledge.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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