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What you say is true, but it will be interpreted by some as saying that reason as a belief system has no advantage over other belief systems. This is not the case. Human belief falls on a continuum with fiction on one end and fact on the other. Rationalism falls closer to fact than any other belief system. It is simply a better approximation of reality.
We all have to have beliefs, even atheists as you pointed out. There are differences in the quality of belief systems and it is based on how we support and justify them.
W.C Fields said "Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink!"
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