Those are all good reasons, but most people write off even well-founded anger because they are not able to recognize legitimate reasoning through emotion. It is better, I think, for non- and anti-religious people to make devastating arguments cogently and coolly than to be angry. It's a hypocritical double standard, unfortunately, because many religious people expect their spurious positions to be credited based on their "positive" emoting (e.g., "I'm joyful because of my beliefs, therefore you must credit them with greater weight than you otherwise would"), but it doesn't hurt to take the high ground.
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Those are all good reasons, but most people write off even well-founded anger because they are not able to recognize legitimate reasoning through emotion. It is better, I think, for non- and anti-religious people to make devastating arguments cogently and coolly than to be angry. It's a hypocritical double standard, unfortunately, because many religious people expect their spurious positions to be credited based on their "positive" emoting (e.g., "I'm joyful because of my beliefs, therefore you must credit them with greater weight than you otherwise would"), but it doesn't hurt to take the high ground.
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