No more religious debate

[Gambit]

Not quite; I'm curious to learn what leads people to lack belief in gods. I'm curious about the supposed correlation between logical thinking and atheism. I'm curious about a lot of things; I'm just not curious to hear any more religious apologetics.

And I'm curious about what leads people to believe in gods, since I seem to be unable to do so myself.

The correlation of religiosity and lack of education suggests gullibility, but this fails to account for all the educated and religious people out there.... There must be something else.

Actually, that is a considerably more interesting subject. I suspect that most of it is cultural, reinforced by a healthy dose of cognitive dissonance. I've debated really intelligent (Not gymnastic apologists) Christians into a corner, only for a trip switch to go off and set them into a state of cognitive dissonance.

My girl, for instance, went into complete meltdown when I pointed out that her compassion for people conflicts with the genocidal nature of the bible God. She couldn't resolve the two things in her head, so she went and asked her mom for advice. She was told that we shouldn't question god, but instead go out and help people ourselves. I didn't want to push the point, so I just left it at that.