http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/%7Ealtemey/
strongly suggests that there are more fundamental processes at work, processes that transcend "belief", and that the breakdown in the ability to rationally evaluate evidence and construct a personal world based on it seems typical of the authoritarian personality and plays a big role. Brains that are ---well, broken in this way-- are drawn to fundamentalisms of many sorts. It seems they cannot be dissuaded by reason from these loyalties.
Finally, Lots of us godless atheist devils enjoy a well reasoned and well written bit of work that says what we might---if we had the time and talent.
Thanks, Ted.
Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.
The real cause is abusive psychology and stressful depersonalising relationships, and the way they bond with them and come to see them as normal and necessary, while outsiders are seen as evil.
Arguing that they should stop believing in god and start believing in science and evolution instead doesn't connect with their experience in any way.
