A lot of people in the original "guys, be careful when hexing the Taliban" thread sounded uncannily like Christians discussing their prayer game. It bothers me when people ridicule new religious/spiritual movements while having boundless respect for the people telling us we need to drink God's blood every week to help us work out how to ban abortion, just because they've been around a while. Imo it's fine to respect both or neither, just be consistent.
Also there was literally one person in that thread arguing, without any hint of irony, that Covid-19 happened because Mercury was in retrograde*, so I don't know if these two groups are as distinct as you suggest.
*also something about the "start of the age of Aquarius", but apparently different astrologers place that anywhere from like 1900 to 2600, so it's impressively meaningless even by their standards
A lot of people in the original "guys, be careful when hexing the Taliban" thread sounded uncannily like Christians discussing their prayer game. It bothers me when people ridicule new religious/spiritual movements while having boundless respect for the people telling us we need to drink God's blood every week to help us work out how to ban abortion, just because they've been around a while. Imo it's fine to respect both or neither, just be consistent.
Also there was literally one person in that thread arguing, without any hint of irony, that Covid-19 happened because Mercury was in retrograde*, so I don't know if these two groups are as distinct as you suggest.
*also something about the "start of the age of Aquarius", but apparently different astrologers place that anywhere from like 1900 to 2600, so it's impressively meaningless even by their standards