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I've yet to meet a rational sane atheist. Joel Send a noteboard - 12/09/2011 10:01:59 PM
Just ready to take a jump of faith that I would not take.

Could be crazy, but not necessarily. Atheists are also not all rational and sane for that matter.

Agnostics, sure; they often seem the most rational and sane as a group, but positive atheism just takes the same leap of faith rt referenced; it simply leaps in the other direction. Saying you're undecided, or there's not convincing evidence or even that the balance of evidence indicates there's probably no God is rational (though I dispute the veracity of that last example, obviously). The inability to prove a negative, however, is a cornerstone of logic, so claiming to have done so is automatically irrational.
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