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Originally Posted by willravel
There's a correlative link between being an atheist and being interested in logic considering the environment in which most atheists live. It's that commitment to logic among others that leads people away from the very strong hold of religion.
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There's a correlative link between eating peanut butter as a child and smoking crack. It is not a commitment to peanut butter that leads people to crack. Also, there isn't necessary a causal relationship between having a self perceived commitment to logic and having an actual commitment to logic. From my experience, there is more a correlative relationship between being an atheist and having a half-assed hobby-like interest in things like logic and science than there is for being an atheist and having a rigorous, this-is-fucking-boring-and-difficult-to-wrap-my-head-around interest in science. See any comment section digg when the news item involves either pop-science or atheism if you don't believe me.
There is definitely something that divides theists and atheists, but commitment to logic or science isn't it.
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The point is that it's not logical to believe god exists. It's not about thinking the belief is logical due to whatever hypothetical peace comes with the belief.
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What's not logical about it? Remember, logic has nothing to do with proof.