(March 18, 2020 at 6:33 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: That’s not exactly FM’s point, though. He emphasized the difference between secular and non-secular Muslims and Jews. He was addressing people who ‘...have a lot of faith in nonsense from holy books...’ as opposed to making some sort of blanket generalization about all or even most believers.
He says that "secular" people don't believe the myths, and religious people do believe the literal truth of the myths, which cause them to waste mental energy on reconciling these things.
This is not true.