There’s something wrong with outright rejecting objective reality to believe in the fantastical. Doesn’t lend itself well to rational thinking voters, exactly does it?
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tux0r@feddit.org 5 months agoNothing’s wrong with religion. I don’t believe that Buddhists automatically make an objectively worse choice than atheists.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 months ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Kinda depends on their exact beliefs. Cuckoos aside, a lot of non-extremist religious folks have views that are reasonably compatible with reality, or at least not mutually exclusive.
floo@retrolemmy.com 5 months ago
I belief in an invisible wizard in the sky that grant wishes and subject you to eternal torture if you don’t both believe in him and love him is incompatible with reality
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
As long as they aren’t believing every small thing that happens is due to the actions of said sky wizard, I’m not seeing the incompatibility. Also, I’m agnostic, so if you’re trying to get a raise out of me don’t bother.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Crystal healers, OTOH…
jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Oh I have friends in that group too. The problem is, I wouldn’t trust any of them to do logic and reasoning. They’re great people, but they couldn’t reason their way out of a wet paper bag.
jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
tux0r@feddit.org 5 months ago
You do have a point.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 months ago
Imagining a piece of mineral can do something is wrong, but talking to some invisible force can do something is right?
tux0r@feddit.org 5 months ago
Christianity is not the same thing as religion.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Personally, I put that kind of woo-woo in the same bucket as religion. It’s all belief in made up nonsense that is indicative of a lack of critical thinking.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Clutches crystals really firmly and sends evil thoughts your way
thefactremains@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I disagree. The problems materialise whenever a person enters the real world and their beliefs affect how they act.
For example, a religious doctor choosing not to administer birth control, or not to perform abortions. That’s a real-world problem caused by religious people’s own beliefs impacting how they personally choose to act, and having a negative effect on society at large.
Was. If you said was critical, I would agree with you. But certainly not is. We have no use for woo-woo and belief in nonsensical claims today.
aleq@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They are powerful centers of healing though…