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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre
A very succinct way of pointing out that one of the main reasons we even have this debate, is that religion is something people invest greatly into, and therefore it's very difficult to actually enter into a discussion about it where it doesn't come to a match of who can simply shout the loudest.
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Well my point was more that people have been acculturated into thinking that god belief is at least a somewhat logical thing to believe in, so they don't treat it the same way they do other things that really aren't any more seemingly ludicrous. Even atheists probably subconsciously feel that god belief is at least worthy of consideration merely because they've been raised in a majority theist society, even if intellectually they don't. What's inherently more logical about a god then a flat Earth or a zombie apocalypse or Harry Potter being secretly a documentary? There's no more legitimate evidence for any of them, and the concepts are all equally ludicrous enough that quantifying which might be more likely is pointless. I mean I think George Romero has actually provided a more convincing case for a worldwide epidemic turning people into animated, flesh-eating corpses than anybody has water being turned into wine or that a being so powerful that he may as well be magical who created the universe and everything in it actually exists. And yet people still say, "What if?" about god, but would openly mock anyone who tried to warn them of the coming hordes of the undead.