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It’s just people justifying their beliefs. As I said to someone else, I worked for decades with extremely smart people. A pretty good percentage of atheists, but lots of people who also believed whatever religion they were raised in. All of them made their peace with being scientists and being religious, one way or another.

trying to prove the existence of God

Which he couldn’t/didn’t do, giving credence to my position that you don’t come to belief in god through logic.

Look, I spent 40 years working with literal rocket scientists, I understand that smart people can be religious. Literally zero of them were raised without religion and came to it because of logical deduction. Smart people will either try to justify things they were raised to believe, or they’ll just say that their religious beliefs come from a faith that isn’t tied to logic. But rocket scientists who were raised Hindu will do the same with their pantheon as Christians do with their god.

I didn’t say it made him dumb, I implied that faith doesn’t flow from logic. Plus it’s a little problematic to say that our great minds were people of faith when, for much of our history, not being a person of faith could mean death. But it’s true, there were folks like Thomas Aquinas who were brilliant and more than average religious.

Certainly can’t disagree with him there

I’d say he must be very logical except, you know…

I have not. I was raised catholic and consumed a lot of catholic stuff in my early years. I’m an atheist now and just can’t get interested in any of it.

I like the idea of a technologically literate pope.