>I sort of wonder how atheists process someone like him believing in God. Cognitive dissonance. I kid, I kid: but I see too many atheists happy to deride a vi

>I sort of wonder how atheists process someone like him believing in God. Cognitive dissonance. I kid, I kid: but I see too many atheists happy to deride a viewpoint with that pop-psychology term as a means of writing it off. Qualifying a behavior as inherently rational or irrational runs the risk of functioning rather like a dogma.