Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
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I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.
I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible.
Rationally, I was convinced that the universe without God made no sense, but that simply was not the same as believing. But I also knew that I could not argue myself, or be argued, into faith.
Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.
A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
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