That is fair. I am not quite sure if it is religious thinking or tribal thinking giving itself dangerous justification. But plainly religious excuses are happily received.
I am not over familiar with Islam, but with Judism they are plainly getting being the chosen people wrong. I some times wonder if they have read any book of the Bible aside from Judges. It is replete with them getting conquered when they are unjust to the downtrodden.
For myself I do think the insanity that is Catholicism is actually the sanest explanation of what is going on. If it isn't true it would still be the most evolutionary advantageous set of beliefs.
I'd love to make converts myself, probably to validate my beliefs 😛 but I kinda doubt I'll ever succeed. I overshare my own doubts and play self-devil's-advocate with my own biases and psychological explanations for my beliefs.
About the best I can do is to point out that faith isn't the absence of doubt, it is deciding to trust your eggs to one particular basket. I just have to pick one that has internal logical consistency. It happens to be the one I was born into. Lucky!
(After much pondering I actually believe, but fully admit that it is suspiciously convenient for me.)
Daniel Wigton
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