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If you try to make actual sense of these things you're gonna have a bad time. They're not made for people capable of thinking.
It's not that they're incapable (at least not all), they just turn it off when it comes to religion.
My parents are staunchly evangelical to this day, and I've heard my father use logic and critical thinking on multiple occasions, even identifying things like non sequitur and Occam's razor when it comes to following a train of thought through. I've literally witnessed him using the same logic atheists use to disprove islam.
Unfortunately they're trained from birth to believe that...
Doubting the Bible is heinous and will put your salvation in jeopardy.
Everything that contradicts the Bible is just a plot from the devil to ruin your salvation.
Once you ingrain those ideas into a very malleable 3-4 year old mind, it's incredibly difficult for them to remove their emotional attachment from the specific religion they're a part of so that they can use the same logic they employ on other philosophies into their own.
It's like a mental block, or a thought virus. They terminate any and all logic when it comes specifically to their religious beliefs (and politics, because it's the same thing for modern fundies.)