Introducing The Universal Religion

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You're doing the same thing yourself even if you don't understand that you're doing it. You can't really claim atheism/materialism as the default either seeing as belief in the unseen aspect of reality seems to be as old as the human species itself.

Atheism is the default: you can say that belief in the unseen is as old a humanity, but that's not actually the claim you religious people are making, is it? If we lower our standards for the default position such that we're accepting unseen claims... which one? How can you possibly accept just one the default? Isn't that special pleading? Your choices there are either to accept mutually exclusive propositions as the default, which is absurd, or to accept one specific one (I know which you want ) but having no justification for disregarding the others, based on the vague criteria you've set in place.

The only logically consistent default position is disbelief.