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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Ah, but in the mindset of most atheists, belief in God is really no different than belief in the Easter Bunny or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and frankly, it's hard for skeptics to respect the intelligence of believers for that reason. Tell me honestly, you would surely question the intelligence of someone who claimed to have a genuine belief in Zeus, Aphrodite, Apollo, and the rest of the Greek pantheon, right? Well, that's how many of us feel about those who believe in other gods.
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Well perhaps most, but not all of us. I think a belief in God is considerably different than believing in the Easter Bunny or the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
There's a little more to a belief in God than there is to a character that is kept around to sell chocolate, or a satirical "god" like the spaghetti monster.
I've met plenty of people who are smarter than me and they have some sort of belief in a god.
I've never met a fundamentalist who wasn't a moron though.