# Believers: Your reaction if you are shown to be wrong?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 31, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/believers-your-reaction-if-you-are-shown-to-be-wrong/645691 "2012-12-31T18:46:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/believers-your-reaction-if-you-are-shown-to-be-wrong/645691/32 "2013-01-03T15:11:50Z")

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Let us not assume that convincing a non-believer that god exists automatically makes said person a follower of God. Believing that God exists is not the same as believing _in_ God, any more than believing that Hitler existed makes you a believer in Hitler.

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