Here's the deal: believers have inured themselves to the fantastic. They believe stories like Lot's wife turning into a salt pillar, Jonah living inside the whale, raining frogs, virgin births, zombie re-animations, etc. I think there is a corner of their brain that they unconsciously turn off in order to remain inured. I don't think they're being purposely deceitful for the most part. I also think that they cannot fathom that other people aren't inured like they are, so they can honestly say ridiculous things---they aren't aware it's ridiculous.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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