(November 2, 2017 at 9:32 am)Captain_Nemo Wrote:(November 2, 2017 at 9:23 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: It's still a myth. A myth can have some truth in it, but that doesn't make it true.
I'm not looking for the destruction of religion. The only way to overcome magical thinking is in one's own head. People who want to believe will find some channel for their needs until they realize they're not real or necessary.
I find it ironic that immediately after the phrase, "can hack your mind and reprogram it at will" you say you believe in Satan.
But here its the same assumption again. You do not know what kind of data I have to keep the believe up.
And if You read further the point was in regards to something completely different. Additionaly I did not elaborate on what I think Satan is.
Just see what You did. Can You read minds?
I even put the word in brackets, to show that the point of the sentence is something different and You chose to address the least important aspect of the sentence.
If you have data that we don't know about, whip it out. And using the name Satan, and then claiming I don't know what you mean by the term is disingenuous. It has a definition, whether you agree with it or not.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
