(May 19, 2015 at 4:45 pm)nicanica123 Wrote: So I ask, are atheist immune to common human fallacies and emotional roadblocks? Or is religion and god the one main cause of such things?
[fun fun] Atheists have an extra gene that prevents them from having such fallacies. People who deconvert from any religion, suffer a mutation of this gene, thus enabling them to reason clearly... Sometimes, this mutation is only temporary and it can revert back to its original state. Of course, the mutation can also go in the opposite direction and an atheist become a theist.
[realsies] Of course! Atheists are humans like believers. They just don't believe in the existence of a god, provided that such belief is invariably brought to them through other humans.... other equally faulty humans.
Knowing that the information conveyed by humans may be faulty, a certain degree of critical thinking arises and, given the absence of any solid base on where the believer can stand.
It's like Matt says, I'd like to believe as many true things as possible and not believe in as many false things as possible. The truthfulness of a claim that's unverifiable is, from the start, unsustainable. So, we don't believe.
