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Some of us happen to be of the opinion that "belief" is very nice way of saying "someone making shit up and having others falling for it". Fairies, trolls, halflings, UFO's, crop circle aliens, chiropractic healing of deafness, autism caused by vaccines and, oh yes, the big one: God(s).
Some of us happen to think that Humanity needs to get past the idea that "making shit up and then believing it's true", sorry, "believing" or "faith" is reasonable, acceptable or even OK.
There'd be a lot less abortion clinic murders, holy wars, children dying through lack of herd immunity to preventable diseases, children being raped as a cure for aids, mass hysteria for witches making men impotent, etc, etc... if we could just get past the whole idea that it's a good thing to believe in things that have zero basis in evidence.
To clarify, with regard to God(s), I'm talking about the variety that might have any passing interest in the observable universe we inhabit, other flavours are still fairy stories, but less damaging aside from encouraging the belief in nonsense.
So yes, there is a reason to have the occasional quarrel with people who "make shit up".
I believe we generally discourage lying... just not about the Zombie Jew who dies for Original Sins that... you get the point.
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--
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