A or not A in regards to theism

[NNadir]

36. This is really all about interacting with other people and neither...

...logic or knowledge.

There seems to be, empirically, some probably genetically driven predisposition to mystical thinking. Many of the finest minds ever to existed seem to have displayed this predisposition. Other very fine minds have reasoned it away.

I have reasoned it largely away, but still if I'm honest with myself, I do experience superstitious thinking from time to time.

I deliberately engage actively with religious superstition when I am addressing or interacting with someone I love to whom such thinking is important, just so long as they are not using their faith to encourage evils like Trumpism. Indeed, I do as much for a dead person who existence is entirely a function of the emotional and practical memory of her survivors, my mother. Each Good Friday I go to a church and participate in the service and act as though I embrace the absurd story being told. In a psychological sense I find this rewarding, even though logically I find the connected tales recorded by barely literate sheep herders to have no phenomenological basis.

My deepest mystical impulse is connected with the magnitude and mere existence of the universe itself, and I need no anthropomorphic diety to be struck by its magnificence and a sense of wonder.