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Speaking as someone who's not particularly faithful myself, I think the easiest trap for people of that type to fall into is that because they see themselves as elementally more "rational" than this other group of people they've deemed "irrational", it creates a sort of bias of uncriticality within them where they think "well, this thought I had must be right, because I had it and I'm a rational person." They begin to see their thoughts as implicitly right and theists' as implicitly wrong.Atheists consider themselves rational/rationalists because they think we believers are irrational and we expect every other problem be solved by a miracle instead of doing anything to solve it. They see us as people unable to have depth and knowledge or an appreciation for science and non-religious art. Not all, but these specific atheists are like this.
It's a sort of credentialism, almost, where they think that the source of a thought, rather than the intrinsic merits of its argument, is what determines its truth. In reality, they heavily strawman the faithful as both ascribing literally every thought they have to faith as well as assuming that having faith in a thought is mutually exclusive with rationality, because as soon as they're comfortable in their self-conception as smart and enlightened, they stop showing any thought that crosses their mind the slightest bit of scrutiny.
It's the thought, not the thinker, that constitutes the truthfulness.



