Just struck me that "Jesus toast" type incidents reveal 90% of religion to be one massive exercise in confirmation bias.
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Some of the Jesus toast is elaborately carved out of stone or wood, or painted...
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step one: create a satisfying pattern people will see everywhere is the hard part, apophenia just follows
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Unless they're real, and Jesus actually is haunting toasters. And, to be fair, if I were an omnipotent God, that's what I'd do.
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my first thought re: pattern-matching was the fairy religions of the British islands
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what's created are rituals, artifacts, and they always subtly change the pattern they reflect
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are you exercising confirmation bias with this tweet? Doesn’t it happen in politics? Art? Science? History? It seems hard to avoid.
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