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Never trust someone religious. By definition they are ruled by fairy tales, and that's not a rational approach to living.
The same is true for ideologies. It's the same irrational approach imo.
It's especially difficult to argue against supernatural beliefs. It means they don't even have to pretend to care about reality.
You have too much faith in humanity. Blind, irrational devotion to your beliefs with no regard for reality is not exclusive to religion. Browse a conservative forum for a few minutes and you'll come across plenty of atheists who also have fundy-esque devotion to nonsensical right-wing concepts like trickle-down. Not even cults have to be religious: just ask people who believe in the Jason Fung Diet or chronic lime disease why they think the scientists are wrong. Religion is just a means to an end for most dogmatists, their real god is the dogma itself.