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BohoBabe · M
Some are sillier than others. Wicca is silly, but the gods and goddesses are considered archetypes, which does make sense. So Wicca is less silly than religions where the mythology is supposed to be taken literally.
zonavar68 · 56-60, M
@BohoBabe Like Scientology, etc.
Thodsis · 51-55, M
@BohoBabe That's a good point. However the silliness of magical crystals and 'nightmare catchers' must be noticed... :)
BohoBabe · M
@Thodsis Any kind of "real" magic is stupid, but I have met Wiccans who say the crystals are more of a thing to use in ritualistic meditation. Wicca and Buddhism have both been really westernized, so a lot of people practice those religions in a secular way.

ninalanyon · 70-79, TVIP Best Comment
Some are undoubtedly sillier than others but that should not be a reason for ridiculing them

The ones that make no claims of perfection, no demands that the heathens be converted, no demands that apostates be executed, don't declare that a baby is born sinful, etc., they can be left alone. They might be ridiculous, but who among us can honestly say that we have no ridiculous opinions.

The big ones that do those hateful things can and must be ridiculed.

Sadly it's not merely a fun question.
Thodsis · 51-55, M
@ninalanyon I thought it was just a rhetorical piss-taking question.

But you've answered it in an unexpectedly thoughtful way.
ninalanyon · 70-79, TVIP
@Thodsis That doesn't make you foolish. It was your question that prompted me to address it the way I did. I hadn't really thought of the subject from the angle you suggested so the unexpectedness comes as much from you as from me.
Thodsis · 51-55, M
@ninalanyon Thanks.

I'll continue to ask rhetorical piss-taking questions. ;)
“[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let alone that the said planet was in orbit in a minor and obscure solar system, which was also on the edge of an unimaginably vast cosmos that was exploding away from its original source of energy. We did not know that micro-organisms were so powerful and lived in our digestive systems in order to enable us to live, as well as mounting lethal attacks on us as parasites. We did not know of our close kinship with other animals. We believed that sprites, imps, demons, and djinns were hovering in the air about us. We imagined that thunder and lightning were portentous. It has taken us a long time to shrug off this heavy coat of ignorance and fear, and every time we do there are self-interested forces who want to compel us to put it back on again.”

― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Thodsis · 51-55, M
@BlueSkyKing And those shamans still enforce hair do's and hair don'ts.

The eatings of this and the not eatings of that...
Jenny1234 · 56-60, M
Some are sillier than others and some are just demonic
Thodsis · 51-55, M
@Jenny1234 I think it might have been the monotheists who got their knickers in a twist about demons. :)
MoveAlong · 70-79, M
I haven't come across any that are beyond ridicule. I can't think of even one (that I've come across) that is likely to be true.

 
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