RE: Ask a Catholic
May 20, 2015 at 6:52 am
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2015 at 7:07 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(May 19, 2015 at 9:43 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Why did Luke Skywalker turn off his computer and rely on the Force?
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Because fiction writers like to pander to the intellectually impaired, by implying, that all the seemingly incomprehensible science and technology - created and mastered by scarily superior minds - can be out-matched by magic, which can be wielded effortlessly by a teenage farm-boy, apparently. Or a carpenter, for that matter. Magic and superstition are escapism for the mentally dull, so they don't feel "left out" in a complex world run by smart people.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw