Tooth Fairy Bullshit

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It’s clear that a lot of AF members, like me, had the unfortunate luck grew up in repressive and/or intellectually bankrupt churches. That’s no excuse for going the other extreme. Just because you’re smart enough to know that biblical inerrancy is bullshit doesn’t make you a paragon of Reason capable of evaluating something like Plantinga’s ontological argument. I would bet money that 90% of people that put the words like logic or reason in their self-description haven’t even heard of modal logic. If all you've got is endlessly repeat "no evidence", can't see the obvious category error, even after it's been made obvious, then you're no better than Christians who quote the Bible to prove it's the Word of God.

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Firstly there is no evidence for god.
But the main reason I have never believed is simple.
Its a silly idea, an obvious old "just so" story told to shut people up so they continue to herd their goats rather search for answers.
I honestly have a hard time believing that people in this technological age believe it at all.

You, I think, grew up in a place where it is not unusual to believe in those sorts of things, but in Britain its an oddity.