I like to treat religious people nice.

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We favor the scientific method but that is in itself an emotional bias. We don't embrace it because we are smart but because it appeals to us emotionally.

I disagree. It's not that I 'emotionally' like the truth... I don't emotionally like the idea, for example, that my dead loved ones are just plain dead, and not in some afterlife. I simply embrace science because it is true, whether I emotionally like it or not.

Sure, we may not be totally objective, but that doesn't mean there isn't a spectrum of how objectively correct people's beliefs can be. It's not an emotional bias to favor the scientific method at all: it's a detachment from emotional decision making.

I agree that we shouldn't be mean to religious people: there's no point. But that doesn't make them somehow right, or their views worth respecting. I'll tolerate religious views, but respect of an belief doesn't come that cheap.