A problem with how theists think.

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I think many bypass those because they're heavily affected by a state of cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias. They just have to realise it, but unfortunately many people even ignore their confirmation bias and their cognitive dissonance.

It's kind of a chicken and egg problem: which came first, the confirmation bias, or the religious text that specifically cultivates that attitude in order to make its claims more palatable? Can't buy into the latter without the former, and as theistic attitudes to every other religion but their own demonstrate, the former isn't universally present whenever they read religious texts anyway.