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    5 hours ago

    Literally René Descartes, arguably one of the most important mathematicians and philosophers in history, spends most of his meditations trying to prove the existence of God. Religious people can be very logical and believe in their religion for logical reasons, even if you and I disagree with those reasons.

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      3 hours ago

      believe in their religion for logical reasons

      lol. there is literally no way to use logic to infer existence of god.

      people believe in religion because they were brainwashed to it, usually at young age when they lacked the rational apparatus to resist such brainwashing.

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        16 minutes ago

        to be fair, logic and inference are different things. logic helps you build structure around a given set of axioms.

        actually pure logic can be horribly unhelpful if you start with axioms that are not aligned with reality. that’s why some really smart people can believe in stupid things.