Re: Why should God be any more believable than the Tooth Fairy?
I think you are ignoring the payoffs for the belief. Belief in tooth fairy/santa is nice for kids but hardly essential to an adult. We can deal with losing a tooth just fine as an adult.
Compare that with fear of death and our eventual non-existence, our need to understand the unexplainable, and existential doubts about our place and purpose in the world. These are much deeper needs and the tooth fairy doesn't really cut it.
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