This reminds me of an old priest who pointed out that people who don’t believe in God tend to believe in astrology and other superstitions, and said that was because “people have to believe in something or another”. However weird that might look now, I still think that among the demographics he was familiar with (people growing up in a smallish town in Italy in the early 20th century) his observation (about the correlation, not about its cause) was likely not wrong.
I wonder if it ever crossed his mind that “What I believe is equivalent to astrology and other superstitions.” Did he just think he was lucky to have slotted the truth into his belief-hole?
This reminds me of an old priest who pointed out that people who don’t believe in God tend to believe in astrology and other superstitions, and said that was because “people have to believe in something or another”. However weird that might look now, I still think that among the demographics he was familiar with (people growing up in a smallish town in Italy in the early 20th century) his observation (about the correlation, not about its cause) was likely not wrong.
I wonder if it ever crossed his mind that “What I believe is equivalent to astrology and other superstitions.” Did he just think he was lucky to have slotted the truth into his belief-hole?