Two Professors Mischaracterize Religious Belief

Source	https://futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2026/11/when-professors-construct-weaponized.html
Author	Mark Mahin
Published	Today, 01:00 PM
Summary	At the site Aeon we have an article called "Believing and Thinking" by two professors who attempt to disparage religious belief by engaging in some scheme of categorization that does not make any sense and does not fit the facts. Their first mistake is to speak as if there are two types of beliefs: "matter-of-fact beliefs" that are based on evidence, and "religious beliefs" that are not based on evidence. The authors claim "religious credence doesn’t depend on evidence in the way factual belief
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