I'm really good at making correlations. Its like my only superpower. It makes making metaphors as easy as serving cold cereal.
But, what really herds my goats, is when I see a Share if you Agree thing on Facebook where the Message is like, "every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings." Share if you agree. Or...
At the behest of a new Christian that I've taken under my wing, we watched a Documentary called
Spirit Science, cause they wanted to know why it was wrong.
The Spirit Science - RationalWiki
Essentially, the premises and the conclusion of everything in the whole 4 hours of it, was circular reasoning.
ie "Timberwolves are fluffy because they live in the cold, and they are able to live in the cold because they are so fluffy."
Or Looking at the stars and saying, well they got there because God placed them there, and we know that God placed them there because if they weren't there, then God wouldn't have placed them there. AMZNG!! Share if you agree!!
Anyways the Documentary moves really fast, and pulls so much garbage out of thin air that it would give Elrond Hubbard a run for his money. They gloss over just about every popular conspiracy and superstitious belief that you can think of and then sort of reverse narrativize it into a fluidic semi-coherent story.
And people are falling for it.
Christians even.
Which there has been all kinds of New Agey stuff in Christian circles for years. Everything from Obama is the Antichrist to the whole Millenium Debate, is all shrouded with a sort of murky indefensible theoretical quicksand.
So this is one of those, "That awkward moment when no one does their due diligence"
So in the age where the total sum of all the knowledge of man is at our fingertips, superstitious bunk gains traction.
How is that possible?