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by chipsy 5110 days ago
Deductive reasoning may be a powerful tool for discovery, but it can just as easily be hijacked into a means to rationalize emotion and stop useful action. Your argument here, for example, boils down to "why aren't you 100% consistent with rational thought?" But I don't know of anyone who is, so why would you try to justify atheism on that basis? The rational ideal is one you'd have to believe in, just as much as any God.