Instead of asking

[Godscreated]

  We're not the ones falling to Satan's little tricks.

 GC

Godschild : I like your signature regarding Nietzsche. This is how all scripture is written. People like you write stuff down and sign god's name.

  Truth from God is God's, not mine.

GC

[Godscreated]

  We're not the ones falling to Satan's little tricks.

 GC

Oh hi GC, haven't seen you for a while. Still a nutrag I see, jolly good...

 I haven't been as active lately been real busy, yep I haven't changed God's influence, He wants us to be in his truth and stay strong.

GC

[Losty]

He seems to be a poeing poe. A Poe Poe.

Far trucks.

So he's poeing so hard that you can't tell if he's a real Poe or a Poe Poe? What if he's a poeing Poe Poe?

[Thumpalumpacus]

In this case, it's a distinction without a difference.

[Thumpalumpacus]

It does make total sense to me that theists would more readily believe other irrational/superstitious/woo things than atheists. If you've succumbed to one form of magical irrational thinking, you're more vulnerable to more of it. After all, you already have one foot across the divide between reality and fantasy. You can't very easily question all these other things without having to evaluate where your foot is.

That's another reason I'm so against indoctrination. It erodes a person's grip on reality, to a lesser or greater extent. At least that appears to be the case.

Well, conpartmentalization works funny. The same believers who adore a god reject often vehemently the idea of other life in the Universe, for instance -- not that that's woo (because we don't know, yet), but believers reject it because it reduces the specialness of the human race.

And in the mind of the theist, oftentimes, the primacy of human specialness in the eyes of god(s) trumps the woo on offer from UFOlogist etc.

As you said already, the dataset is incomplete. But depending on what phenomenon you're exploring, the primacy of belief can trump it; I think the real question in the mind of the True Believer is "does this go against my core belief?"

And that is compartmentalization in a nutshell. They're very able to summon rational arguments against other forms of woo, not because they're committed to rationality, but because it threatens a worldview they hold dear.

[Athene]

He seems to be a poeing poe. A Poe Poe.

Mmm hmm...Somebody sholey needs to cawl.

Lord ham mercy!

[RozKek]

Why do theists believe as they do,

We should instead be asking:

WHY THE FUCK ARE THEISTS SO FUCKING GULLIBLE?

You're welcome.

  We're not the ones thinking critically.

 GC

FTFY

[chimp3]

Godschild : I like your signature regarding Nietzsche. This is how all scripture is written. People like you write stuff down and sign god's name.

  Truth from God is God's, not mine.

GC

Then he should sign his own name. Why does he need a ghost writer?

[ignoramus]

He seems to be a poeing poe. A Poe Poe.

Mmm hmm...Somebody sholey needs to cawl.

Lord ham mercy!

Oohh baby ...keep talking dirty to me!

[Homeless Nutter]

We're not the ones falling to Satan's little tricks.

No, you're just an adult, with a bogeyman under his bed...