Well, there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that you understand that I'm making the same absolutely moronic assertions as many others have made. Some coincidence happens, Oh schitt, it's magic, don't understand stastistics, must have been some kind of god or magic force that made it happen.
Understood. Although many different peoples used to attribute weather phenomenon or agricultural ups & downs to random supernatural influences, its still somewhat prevalent among religious adherents today.
I just have trouble understanding how a people who consider themsevlve so advanced can be so gullible and stupid. I've lived in Europe about half of my life, almost exactly, and they can be pretty stupid too over there, but they're not nearly as gullible about religion as they are over on this side of the pond.
British Traditional Wicca. The runic magic of scandanavian countries and Germany. Drudism. Times change - at least in some societies; then we have the judeo-xtians and muslims who are a few thousand years behind the times.
OK, muslims, let's not start on those, lots of fanatics there just like US christians, neither groups understand their annoying proselitization, and many of the muslims back it up with dramatic and explosive proselitization. Since I got back to the US, more than half the people I've met as friends have tried to convert me to some kind of religion, I feel like I just landed in the year 1200. Of course, in Europe we also had the Jehovah's witlesses, but it was easy to close the door on those bozos, almost nobody ran into them as "friends." Over here in the US they talk about "freedom of religion" more than any place else on the planet (and I've been to a lot of countries) and then every illiterate idiot around here who barely understands ancient and biblical history makes himself a biblical scholar and tries to convert you to his views.
This is the problem, Americans don't understand "freedom of religion." I don't follow your religion, so leave me alone with your religion, but, just like those fanatic muslims, they can't do that. I don't run around and tell people to stop believing in their Jesus and all the Disneyland fantasies surrounding their religion. You don't allow me my freedom of belief, like the Nazis and Communists, you have a higher truth and it's your imperative to convince me, or not convince me but to certainly convert me.