The Long and the Short of it.

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So you see? Different conclusions. Why is that?

Because he's Frodo, a committed theist. He's far too invested in his personal superstitions to be swayed by anything as prosaic as reason.

Religious beliefs are usually inculcated into small children,who accept them uncritically as they believe anything an adult tells them. Neither reason nor evidence are involved in the process.

give me the child until the age of 6 and I care not who has the man. (Augustine of Hippo (354-430CE) )

Augustine understood that few people ever abandon the beliefs and values of childhood. The parts of us in which reason played no part in forming can rarely be undone by reason alone. Perhaps that's one reason atheists (so far) remain in the minority in most countries.

Having said that,I am not arguing atheists as a group are more rational than theists. I agree with Carl Jung,who argued* that our strongest beliefs and values are the result of direct experience,that emotion is more important than reason. That is why belief is not a choice We can and do rationalise any position.[as a species]

Frodo has no more choice in his theism than do I in my atheism.

If you could reason with religious people there wouldn't be any. (Greg House)