> Surely you are aware that there are actually people with religious beliefs?

Yes. What's your point? It doesn't make those beliefs rational. Faith is belief in something despite the absence of evidence. I am using the term "religious belief" interchangeably with "faith based belief system."

> belief that there are people with religious beliefs is anything but irrational.

I have no idea what you are trying to say in this sentence.

- I don't "believe" that there are people with religious beliefs. I observe that to be the case.

- I never described "belief that there are people with religious beliefs" as irrational.

I think your point might be that, because there are people with irrational beliefs out there we must appease them? Or something?

I really don't know what you're trying to say here. There are people out there who believe in crazy things. We agree on that. How we should treat those people, or react to their existence, is entirely outside of the scope of conversation. It is perfectly acceptable to call an irrational belief irrational.

We were talking about language and communication and the absurdity that there is a such thing as an arbitrary sequence of phones or characters that would cause anyone exposed to that to be offended. All I was saying is that such a belief is unfounded. I honestly don't know what you are trying to say.