(July 17, 2022 at 4:37 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: To believe in ANYTHING supernatural one may as well believe in EVERYTHING supernatural; like witches, goblins demons, gods, talking trees, vampires and dragons to name a few. Why be selective? When no evidence exists for any of them, why dismiss any and not all?
This is ultimately one of my main remaining frustrations with the religion in my family; this tendency to believe in all of it, or at least within a certain category... so not so much vampires, ghosts, and goblins (well maybe ghosts) but certainly anything that claims to predict the future etc... such as astrology, tarot cards, reading tea leaves, psychics, voodoo etc... they believe and fear all of it, attributing it to 'sorcery' or the devil. It's just so frustrating because all of that from my perspective is just the power of self-fulfilling prophecy and self-fulfilling perception, and just because the practitioners of these things often believe so strongly in them - and thus appear and indeed are genuine in their beliefs at least (notwithstanding deliberate con artists), which in turn inspires confidence and trust in others - doesn't make the results any more real outside their own minds or the minds of others that believe in it.
