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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Simply put: superstition is the practice of inferring causation from correlation. Religion may have emerged from a superstitious worldview, but the key here is that in many of its present forms, it has in fact emerged. Religion is composed of ritual, culture, social memory, and various cues that bind communities together—not all of them in all places and forms are pattern-seeking behaviours.
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When you believe in things that you don't understand you suffer?
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Without question. How does one go about "proving" such a thing?
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I don't know. I've heard there's a lot of smart people working on it. What I was getting at is the interesting dichotomy on display between your logic and faith.
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This insinuates that such evidence is demonstrable. Since I know that it is not, I must assume that the only "weak" and "feeble minded" one between the two of us must be you.
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I think you mentioned something above about correlation and causation.