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LanternWaste

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7. As well as money, which seems something almost every American,

Reply to mdbl (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 20, 2016, 10:46 AM

Jan 2016

"How do you think religion propagates?"

As well as money, which seems something almost every American, even the most hip, more-clever-than-thou skeptic seems to place great reliance on and faith in; even if it is a made-up fantasy...

Hence, some made-up fantasies are more rational to believe in, and thus exempt from the clever appellation of 'magic thinking,' but I suppose which is which is anyone's guess.

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