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In the US, the fastest growing religion is None-of-the-above [1]. Now, that's not to say that people have given up magical thinking and have embraced reality. They still might believe false things. But at the very least, on some level they've realized that (organized) religion and its dogma is poisonous.

1) http://elm.washcoll.edu/index.php/2018/11/fastest-growing-re...




> magical thinking

Christianity’s main claims revolve around agreeing eyewitness accounts from hundreds of people, set against a backdrop of people in power who had the motivation and opportunity to disprove them if they could (but who opted to kill them instead). You may say those people were lying or call them delusional, but my choice to believe them hardly qualifies as magical thinking.

And that could easily be lobbed the other direction. To think that a universe, its physical laws, and everything in it can come from nothing might just as well be called magical thinking.

It might be more helpful to engage the worldview and its arguments than use dismissive phrases.


Talking about dismissive phrases, you mention hundreds of witnesses. Yet for a son of one and truly god, sorry God, to walk among common folks, not a single roman historian bothered to make even a fleeing mention in their records. The first one happen almost 100 years afterwards [1].

As we all know, many people are effin' properly weird. They make up stories, believe utter nonsense only because its convenient. But we're led to accept without any question records passed verbally for hundred(s) of years of magical supernatural acts. In fact, whole bible is full of them, somehow universe 2000-3000 years ago was much more magical place where simple laws of physics didn't work if you had the right god on your side.

Here we come full circle to the fact that most sane christians today don't have answer to this simple logical fallacy (and others). They will tell you that you can't take these things literally, just take the moral values etc. So we end up with some bastardized religion, call it a sect, which picks from Bible what they like, and conveniently ignore the rest.

With this logic we can turn to old greek/persian/hindu/pagan/etc myths which contain tons of moral lessons too. And being a good moral person doesn't need any fear-of-god pressure, most of us have this thing called moral compass. Those who don't have it can't be saved/turned good by any faith anyway.

Maybe some older folks from bible belt or some 3rd world country can be still fed this utter nonsense, but anybody with critical thinking has hard time with these topics. You can't be a good citizen and be critical to your government and overall bullshit around us, and in the same time turn this part of your personality off with faith.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus




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