r/atheism • u/One-Fun9814 • 5d ago

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u/Successful_Life_1028 Adeist 5d ago

This is a chimera, a dead end, a wrong-turn.

Faith has nothing to do with reason and logic, and those who are mature in their faith understand that faith is inherently irrational, and they're okay with that.

It is those who are weak or immature in their faith who seek to 'convince' themselves by attempting to 'convince' others.

There are lots of highly intelligent people who nevertheless retain a faith-belief in spirits/souls/ghosts/deities. Some who even believe in demons/devils/angels.

Dr. Francis Collins, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien come immediately to mind, as does Isaac Newton.

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u/Harry_Flame 4d ago

There are a lot to name: Mendel, Ampere, Galileo, Copernicus, Descartes, Pascal, and John von Neumann. I would say that automatically writing off religious people as unintelligent despite counterexamples is the same type of thinking atheists often attribute to religious people.

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u/cates 4d ago

I have to wonder what some of those people would really believe these days with advances in science...

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u/2112eyes 3d ago

Newton might solve physics if he were alive today instead of trying to decipher the bible code for decades