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Originally Posted by filtherton
I don't think this is true at all. From what I've seen, most theist on atheist conversations result in anger on the part of all involved, and the anger has less to do with who was right than with the fact that conversations like that tend to bring out the inner douchebag. There is no shortage of misplaced smug self righteousness on either side of the debate.
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In an argument in a bar sure, I'll agree with you, but this is on a broader scale, wars and suppression of ideas. There the theist becomes the aggressor.
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What you're claiming seems to me to be more like rationalization, perhaps a tad self serving) of the communication problems inherent between two fundamentally divergent perspectives. Cognitive dissonance would only come into play if the theist in question believed that faith and reason weren't compatible. Some theists do some theists don't.
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I honestly have a hard time understanding how any intelligent, educated theist can be employing reason in regards to their own faith. Faith itself implies there is no need for reason.
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Aside from that, I think it is generally a stretch to claim that men ever really deal with one another from a basis of pure reason.
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Ego can always get in the way.