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Shermann

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2. Faith is not based on evidence
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 01:52 PM
Mar 2020

So the point is that certifiable insanity of an individual is differentiated by society from ordinariness simply by a purely arbitrary count of those who share their theistic worldview. Beliefs based on evidence employ a peer review process as well, however it works very differently.

I don't believe this works in the other direction, so I reject that as a false equivalency. It is absurd to imagine a million people supporting a faith-based religion with only one individual being skeptical of it. That's too fantastical even for the Twilight Zone.

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