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[quote=takoma][quote=Anonymous]I'll take a stab at this too.  Full disclosure, I am a Catholic and pretty conservative religiously and otherwise.

The purpose in believing in a religion is [b]because of truth[/b] (I will wait for the laughter to stop, but I am serious).  ...[/quote]
Thank you for that.  I am amazed that you are apparently the only "believer" who actually believes.  It looks like the rest are atheists like me whose only difference from me is that they think they have to keep up the pretense that God exists because otherwise their fellow citizens (and they themselves?) will degenerate into savagery.

Giving morality as a reason for belief is, IMHO, accepting the basic tenet of my atheistic view of the world -- that good behavior is the basis of civilization and religion is a useful tool to foster such behavior.

If that sounds dismissive, let me add that I am not so confident of my own beliefs that I dismiss the truly held beliefs of others, and in some ways I am jealous of the comfort they receive from their faith.  For me, a facet of the golden rule is:  accept your own fallibility as you would hope those with different beliefs will accept theirs.[/quote]

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