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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im sorry jeet that seems really reductive and wrong to me
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where does magical thinking begin and end?
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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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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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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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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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To the people saying this is wrong, are you religious?
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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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