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Old 03-17-2008, 07:25 PM   #109 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by kamikazi89 View Post
the evidence is on their side(that's the whole point of atheism)
could you elaborate how atheism is a security blanket/crutch compared to religion..to me it seems the opposite is true
because it can be a scary thought that there can be more to reality than what one experiences with the physical senses, or that there are some things that may be unknowable. so one clings to only the things that one feels are absolutely knowable, ignoring more subjective evidence
everyone experiences reality a bit differently, our brains filter out so much. just consider vision. many of the things we see are made up by our brain depending on what we expect to see, based on the patterns we're used to seeing. we just kinda fill in the blanks to get a full picture
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