Biblical illiteracy

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Good reasons. I especially like because think the beliefs harm people and you want to free them from that harm.

Quite altruistic actually.

Right!

There's another reason, actually. One I forgot to add earlier: personally, I want my beliefs to most closely align with reality, and part of the way to get there is to make sure I'm not locked in an echo chamber where the only thing I hear are beliefs like my own. When I talk with a believer about their beliefs, there's always the possibility that they'll say something I didn't know, or present some unique evidence that can convince me to take their position, at least in part. Hasn't happened yet, but there's always the possibility; I'm not trying to convince people of anything I wouldn't do myself, which is to seek what's true as closely as we all can.

It might very well be that the person who believes in a god that endorses the harm I see in religion is dead on correct, in which case, shit, I've got some reassessing of my position to do. That doesn't mean I'll outright endorse all the things I previously fought against, but it does mean I've got to move along my beliefs to another juncture on the soteriological road, and begin again from there. At that point I'll have a better foothold on the truth from which to make my moral arguments, which can only ever lead to increased accuracy and success.