(March 17, 2019 at 11:36 pm)Catharsis Wrote:(March 17, 2019 at 6:10 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Do you reckon that might have something to do with being taught to regard magic as superstition and magical creators as truth?
For better or for worse, the faithful have a choice to lean into magic or descend into intellectual dishonesty.
All I know is you would have a serious issue when you consider anything scientifically unexplained or unknown to be magic.
Theists of various stripes have been doing that since forever. It is such a common gambit that it even has a name. It's called "the god of the gaps" argument.
