(September 20, 2015 at 12:46 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: I know religious folks who are pretty adept at compartmentalization.
The thing is, the compartments are never perfectly sealed, and it can be hard to predict when and where the nonsense will leak out and contaminate something else. This is why religion is never completely benign.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.