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It is not any more understandable for you to dismiss a religious person as less intelligent than you than it is for a religious person to assume you're going to hell for being Athiest.

Stop trying to justify your prejudices. Two wrongs, etc. etc.

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I think you can dismiss them as less sane, however. You don't have to treat wacky beliefs as equally valid alternative viewpoints. There's a lot of totally supernatural stuff religious people believe that didn't / doesn't happen. The moral and community aspects are generally okay.

My sanity is perfectly fine, thanks, and my beliefs are not beholden to the standard you define as "wacky."

Do you believe God communicates with you?

No. Does that make me less wacky? Do you have a wackiness scale documented that I could check out?

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