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Thread #158721   Message #3756492
Posted By: Steve Shaw
07-Dec-15 - 02:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: Onward Christian Soldiers
Subject: RE: BS: Onward Christian Soldiers
"You can't disagree with superstition becuause disagreement comes from different takes on a subject. Superstition is irrational so how can you have a rational discussion about it?"

Well you're right that you can't disagree with superstition, but that isn't what I said, was it! When I said there is nothing intellectual about believing in superstition (in which I include all religious belief, by the way, not just Mystic Meg, Friday the 13th and not walking under ladders), I was politely saying that it's all delusional. To me, that's a matter of fact, not opinion. But of course we can discuss rationally why some people decide to be irrational. Otherwise, lessons at schools for psychiatrists would be completely silent.