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AlderaanDuran  ·  4120 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm Not An Atheist

    You can't compare that to not being an astronaut or not believing in dragons.

Sure I could, if I spent all my time talking about how stupid astronauts and dragons are, and found others like me to talk about how much better we are for not being astronauts or not believing in dragons. Again, don't get me wrong, people HAVE found a function to atheism, which is to belong to a group and counter culture to religion. But I said it has no "inherent" function, which it doesn't.

    If everyone in the world believed deeply in dragons without evidence... then not believing in dragons would all of a sudden have an important function.

Exactly, we would have created that function. Inherently it does not have one.