Bursting balloons when you don’t have to

I find the idea of anything supernatural at once amusing, fascinating and totally unconvincing. But as many studies have also  found that belief in a higher power are also often efficacious and beneficial to believers. Which is why I am no longer so  militant in my atheism

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Its a bit like a grown up belief in Santa Claus; it generally does no harm for children to believe in the man in a red suit and, as any parent will appreciate, when  the joy that comes from belief brings much comfort. So  do the realists who don’t need a deity to validate our existence really  need to use that pin in our hands to burst the balloons of those who need their faith?

Cheers Comrades