Are we all becoming pagan again?

[curl-6]

o_O.Q said:

curl-6 said:

I kinda don't though, I believe in the possibility or, if it can be calculated, the probability of things for which there is as yet no concrete proof, but I only really believe in that which can be empirically reasoned or demonstrated. Religion seems to inherently consist of a belief in supernatural forces whose existence has to be taken on faith, whereas I don't believe in anything like that.

everyone actually does, probably the most prominent example is that we defer frequently to experts that we assume know what they are talking about in various fields and occasionally with the passage of time are proven wrong

Weighing the opinion of a qualified expert with more significance than someone unqualified isn't an exercise in religious thinking though, it's simply applying the empirical logic that an expert is more likely to be correct than a non-expert. And there's nothing supernatural involved.