do religious people really believe?

[Neo-Scholastic]

well normally id say insiginificant claims require little evidence and huge soul saving outlandish unbelievable claims require lots and lots of evidence

Evidence is evidence regardless of your judgement about the plausibility of the result. If the rules of evidence are not consistently applied then the process of evaluating that evidence becomes biased.

In short, the idea that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof is just another way to justify ignoring evidence you have already choosen not to accept.

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I think those who claim to believe do so largely because they're afraid not to.

Project much? Maybe you don't want to believe because you're afraid of how that might have to change your life to accommodate religious convictions.

Then again, maybe not. Golden rule: don't ridicule people for motivations you attribute to them if you don't want others to ridicule you based on motivations they have assigned to you.

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... i sometimes use condoms.

Too much information!