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Posted by: eddie ( )
Date: October 29, 2010 07:20PM
"Belief in obvious nonsense is not a harmless indulgence"

"For one, resources spent indulging silliness are resources taken from things that could actually help. Time spent taking a screaming child to an exorcism could have been spent taking her to a hospital. Time spent with “The Power” could have been spent with a therapist.

Failure to think critically also affects politics, and politics affects everybody. Remember Mike Huckabee’s tear-ridden testimony about how certain he was that supernatural forces propelled him to victory in the Iowa presidential caucuses? And yet, when he crashed and burned in the polls shortly afterward, how he was strangely silent?"

Read more: http://www.gazette.com/opinion/things-107053-around-fun.html#ixzz13nDfaGsm

Further discussion:

http://www.postmormon.org/exp_e/index.php/discussions/viewthread/24920/

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Posted by: Stray Mutt ( )
Date: October 29, 2010 07:29PM
And how much of our lives did we waste on trying to figure out...

...what we had to do to please the invisible man so he would bless us, forgive us, stop punishing us? How much time did we waste trying to make cause-and-effect connections where none existed?

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