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I more or less accept your reasoning as far as it goes, but:
If this is true, then why have so much confidence in your own personal appraisal of who to trust and who to write off as deluded? It is of course true that nearly everyone believes what they do for non-truth-tracking reasons, but "nearly everyone" isn't everyone, and there are many people, both theist and atheist, who believe what they do even despite strong memetic pressures to the contrary. Take me, for example; my theism doesn't win me any points with anyone, at least not as many points as it loses. And there are many theists like me. Knowing what you know about how easily humans fall into delusion, how can you be so confident that it's the other side that is deluded, and not your own? To return to the point, can you really be confident enough to disregard Pascal's wager? If so, how did so many at-least-nominally-truth-seeking people, from Plato to Pascal to Kant to me, end up disagreeing with you? How did we fall into such an obvious error?
We seem to be getting into some potentially very important territory, and I would certainly like to continue this discussion, but I'm running out of time for now and may be busy for up to 24 hours.
Before I go though, I should say at least one thing. It's certainly not an obvious error, and I could well be the one who's wrong. The discussions about rationality on Less Wrong are extremely useful for a basic reason: it's an extremely difficult and intricate epistemic journey to compensate for our mal-adapted hardware and software, and LW does it better than any other place at the moment (as far as I can see).
So yeah, your questions are certainly important, and they perhaps get to the essence of the issue. I look forward to trying to answer those questions, and seeing where it leads us in the discussion (assuming you think this is useful too). Feel free to write anything else in the meantime, or not.