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    1. John Ganz‏ @lionel_trolling 25 Apr 2021

      the idiotic atheist view that religion is the source of all evil in the world breaks down when you point that secular ideologies are just as capable, perhaps even more capable, of genocide and war

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Apr 2021
      Replying to @lionel_trolling

      The real problem isn't religion, it's magical thinking. Religion is a prime example of magical thinking but not the only one (in our own era, the most dangerous form of magical thinking is climate denial, which is not necessarily religious).

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        2. John Ganz‏ @lionel_trolling 25 Apr 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          im sorry jeet that seems really reductive and wrong to me

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        3. John Ganz‏ @lionel_trolling 25 Apr 2021
          Replying to @lionel_trolling @HeerJeet

          where does magical thinking begin and end?

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        1. Real Human Turkey‏ @RealHumanBeing 25 Apr 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @lionel_trolling

          Eh... I think selfishness, ideas of superiority, exploitation, scapegoating, etc., can be coded through all kinds of more or less rational systems, can't be reduced to "magical" or "non-magical" thinking.

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        1. Chaplain John‏ @Chapl37 25 Apr 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @lionel_trolling

          Religion is about a lot of things, but focusing on it as magical thinking misses something important, especially in this debate. It is often more about self-righteousness, when it is specifically about one thing.

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        2. Joel‏ @polyparadigm 25 Apr 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @lionel_trolling

          I don’t buy that either. Semiconductor technology is based on the fiction of electron holes, whose defining characteristic is their non-existence. People tabulate the “mass” and other properties of various types of this non-entity, to good effect.

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        3. Joel‏ @polyparadigm 25 Apr 2021
          Replying to @polyparadigm @HeerJeet @lionel_trolling

          This is only one specific example. Quantum mechanics in general calls its practitioners to posit entities they do not understand, and predict interactions among those entities on condition of not observing them. The predictions are useful, but the thinking is magical.

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        1. Name cannot be blank‏ @notsoundmind 25 Apr 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @lionel_trolling

          To the people saying this is wrong, are you religious?

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        1. Jacque‏ @subversivecynic 26 Apr 2021
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          The real problem with religion (as an agnostic theist who has been heavily considering conversion) is not magical thinking. All humans do that. The problem is absolutism, and how bad humans are at falling into it. Absolutism combined with faith is toxic.

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