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by Helianthus16 5559 days ago
>I sort of wonder how atheists process someone like him believing in God.

Cognitive dissonance.

I kid, I kid: but I see too many atheists happy to deride a viewpoint with that pop-psychology term as a means of writing it off. Qualifying a behavior as inherently rational or irrational runs the risk of functioning rather like a dogma.