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Originally Posted by peter12
I'm not sure if my comments really derailed this thread or whatever, but I feel that the atheists in this thread just like getting their jollies by dumping all over the kind of pop-woo descriptions of personal belief, which is weird, because they are only expressed to exemplify the personal mystery that these individuals feel when contemplating their place in the universe.
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I don't get my jollies by dumping on people with faith, but I cannot help but be frustrated by it, simply because of how unreasonable the belief is.
It would be like if someone told me that they believed Apes inhabited the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and the fact that I cannot prove that they don't live down there, is proof it's a possibility that they do. This would be an entirely unreasonable argument to make, and would be equally frustrating for me to hear. Fortunately though, I don't have to worry about anyone ever believing in this, as people do not tend to believe in irrational realities unless they're in a position to personally benefit from that irrational belief.