On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:26:02 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:

>> Yeah, there are whackos out there.  There are also non-religious
>> whackos out there.
>>
> True. Though, as one person once stated it, "Do you refuse to treat a
> recognized, and maybe curable, cancer, because there are a lot of other
> sorts of cancers your cure won't fix?" One less source of wackos is
> still one less source.

Sure, but there are also plenty of reasonable people who are religious as 
well.

The whackos are the minority of any particular group, generally (unless 
you're talking exclusively about a group of whackos, that is <g>).

>> That's a completely different topic.
>>
> But related. Once willing to give up reason on one subject, its easy to
> fall prey to others. And, again, the majority of people playing with
> something like Tarot are *not* doing so honestly, or with themselves,
> they are doing it because it is simply a different sort of "power
> bracelet", which fits into the gibberish they already fell for.

And that's their decision to make.  Lots of strange things happen in a 
free society.  If you don't want that to happen, you need to go to a less 
free society.

Jim

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