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Why do religious people exist.

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No evidence is no evidence. Testimonies are a different matter - I have not had unnatural visions, I have not been in contact with a god of any sort. Their experiences are theirs, and I cannot share them. But yes, due to the fact I have not experienced what they have and due to the fact they cannot bring objective evidence to the table I think they are either frauds or deluded.

But however, that does not make them "bad people" or somehow inferior to me, or all that much flawed. I appreciate some concepts of some religions and some works of art as much as the believers, and I've even been to Vatican just to see what's it like, and it was rather impressive.

>As to higher relgions... I have admiration for Hinduism and taoism, but there is stuff of value in the literatures of all the great relgions ime. There is certainly a higher religious attitude. It is present in some religious people in all the traditions (and in some atheists - Niezsche had it, I believe) and in many artists.

Not sure if I follow you there. First you said that atheism can refute lower religions and religious ideas rather easily, but now you're saying that even some atheists can have a religious attitude. Let's skip all the philosophy - Which I do consider the best gift from religion to humanity by the way - and let me ask you directly;

What gods do there exist in this reality we both live in, in a sense that they affect this reality we both live in directly, with their own actions?