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Originally Posted by KnifeMissile
To whom are you referring when you say that someone has suggested that people "who have faith in religious philosopohy" are less intelligent?
Before you accuse atheists of practicing "faith," please exercise a little common sense. It takes as much faith to not believe in God as it does to not believe in Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy. Do you believe in any of these made up tales? Do you think your disbelief is based on blind faith? Obviously not... you have good reason not believe in any of these entities in exactly the same way you have good reason not to believe any of the religions on Earth (at least, the ones I've heard of). This is not faith, it is pragmatism.
Remember, everyone is an atheist when it comes to the other guy's religion. Atheists just add one more religion to that list...
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Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy are not entities one can equate with the concept of a god. We know who is responsible for the activities attributed to them. You
believe, you have
faith that there is no god or other unifying metaphysical order to the universe. I don't see any other way of looking at it. And further more, wonder why someone should care.
And I was referring to ustwo's remarks about people of faith in comparison to atheists.