Facts are Overrated

It was the same when end-of-times predictions failed. Believers just carried on as though it didn't matter. In the case of JWs in the 40s, with stronger beliefs.Apart from the apocalypse stuff which was pretty binary and as factually and obviously wrong as it's possible to be, there are also always alternative arguments which can be hung on to. It's usually quite hard to prove something absolutely wrong, not matter how weak the counter argument.In the UK we're in the process of having a referendum on leaving the EU. Each and every statistical 'fact' has an equal and opposite rebuttal. This process allows people to 'go with their gut'. And some people's guts are pretty unpleasant.Motivated reasoning is cute.

Motivated reasoning is pretty much an exact description of every post Faith has made here.

Well yes, that's rather the point - nobody has ever been able to point to any testable facts about god/s. Yet people believe anyway. They then use their belief to deflect any real facts that come to light that might intefere.Faith believes in a literal bible so you see her fighting off any facts that prove it's in error which is pretty much the entire body of natural science. A better example of motivated reasoning is hard to find.