Restating My "Religion Does Good" Post More Explicitly

[MidGe]

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Right, but astrology has no way to explain these things away. Astrology makes concrete predictions - religion doesn't. It doesn't harm religion at its core if we disprove prayer - plenty of religious people have considered prayer more an indulgence than anything. No major religion has made the claim that prayer necessarily has concrete physical effects.

However, astrology for all its nuance does make general predictions. In isolated cases, these predictions may not be true, but it's critical to the field of astrology that the predictions will tend to be true. Thus, there must be some correlation between birth month and personality (for example). That there is no such correlation is damning for astrology.

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Madnak, I think you are right! That is the trick of religion: it make claims that are unprovable therefore it may be right and can never be wrong (ie the after death, the soul, etc.)! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Very astute!


There absolutely zero correlation that non-believers go to hell, it is pure speculation! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]