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Old 04-05-2013, 05:39 PM   #293
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Explain how.
Simply put: superstition is the practice of inferring causation from correlation. Religion may have emerged from a superstitious worldview, but the key here is that in many of its present forms, it has in fact emerged. Religion is composed of ritual, culture, social memory, and various cues that bind communities together—not all of them in all places and forms are pattern-seeking behaviours.

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So if God was proven beyond any doubt whatsoever to be a complete and total fallacy, you would instantly stop believing in him and everything associated with him?
Without question. How does one go about "proving" such a thing?

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Because to continue to do so in the face of that evidence would be weak and feeble minded.
This insinuates that such evidence is demonstrable. Since I know that it is not, I must assume that the only "weak" and "feeble minded" one between the two of us must be you.
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