I see over and over again on Quora.com, the question and answer site, that if atheists don't believe in God (a reasonable assumption), then they don't believe in anything, or strangely they must believe in anything. I don't know where this originated but there is a quote that is bandied about in this context.
"When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing; they then become capable of believing in anything." (Emile Cammaerts, often attributed to G.K. Chesterton)
The logic of this escapes me. If we don't believe in a fairy tale character then we can believe anything? That sounds almost exactly backward. If one believes a fairy tale character is real, then it seems one is capable of believing a great many more nonsensical things.
Or does this mean that theists believe that their god protects them from being gullible? And the entry price for that protection is being over-the-top gullible in believing in their god in the first place? Is great puzzlement.
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