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That seems to imply those billions of people religious are not rational, down to earth. Theism in itself is a simpler explanation for existence than atheism, a
by pwgentleman 3y ago
That seems to imply those billions of people religious are not rational, down to earth.
Theism in itself is a simpler explanation for existence than atheism, and yet many rational people are atheists. Is it because they weighted all the possibilities or because they discarded the option a priori?
We are all way less rational than we would like to believe.
- unaindz 3y agoI would argue that theism is not just a simpler explanation but a more naive one. We could also explain computers as magic and it would be simpler than explaining it with electricity and math. No religions are based in any observable facts* and thus being naive explanations, indistinguishable from magic. * More like they are based on deprecated observable facts, at first the sun and nature, later man and it's dramas. Now we now the sun is just a big ball of gas and man is just a big brained mammal. That being said religion is just one area of many and you could be very rational in lots of them but be religious for whatever reason.