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"saying 'God' is an epistemic placebo -- it gives you the feeling of a solution without actually solving anything"
something like that?
Well, you could start with something like that, but you're going to have to set out why it doesn't solve anything. Which I think means you're going to have to make the "lady down the street is a witch; she did it" argument. Making that simple enough to fit into a debate slot is a real challenge, but it is the universal rebuke to everything WLC argues.
I like to put it this way: Religion is junk food. It sates the hunger of curiosity without providing the sustenance of knowledge.