New theistic chew toys wanted!

[Ahriman]

I'm not really concerned with which one seems to make more sense, though.  Saves you a whole lot of time arguing either way, amiright?  I expect people to act on the things they believe to be valuable without any requirement that those things must sensibly or truly be so.  

If a man believed that a soda tab he found in the trash had the power to cure cancer, he'd probably act accordingly.  

I have been asking, though, about the sensibility of such a person believing that no one else could believe in the magical power to cure cancer, unless they -also- believed it proceeded from a belief in soda tabs.

I don't see anything magical about atheism. The way I see it, atheism is a dead ideal, incapable of providing value to anyone, not even its adherents.