It's no wonder, with that kind of intense training and discipling, that those young people are ready to kill themselves for the cause of Islam. I wanna see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I wanna see them as radically laying down their lives for the Gospel as they are over in Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places, you know, because we have... excuse me, but we have the truth!

Becky Fisher, "Jesus Camp"

talabangicals, a-holes with casseroles,

I can't imagine being the passenger that made that decision.

Well technically they were trying to regain control and the hijacking pilot then crashed the plane, but yeah

My imaginary friend is real, yours isn't, so you deserve to die.

Every acceptance of superstition lays the groundwork for a belief in the supernatural. Every Homeopathy-Karen, every Wicca-Hippie, while peaceful and harmless in and of themselves provides the fertile ground on which a bigger misconception of reality can grow.

Should you be able to have your own beliefs and worship as you please as long as you don't intrude on the rights of others?

Absolutely

But should society consider every expression of unfounded belief a failure of education in critical thinking? Yes.

Supernatural thinking and superstition are fundamentally at odds with a congruent model of reality, they are infectious memes and can fester into extremism if left unchecked. Not necessarily in the individual but absolutely on a societal scale.

The Wiccan priestess, the Luciferian practitioner, the Thelemite are not the Hijackers but they absolutely are the grains of sand that in their totality create the wandering dunes that ever so slowly swallow civilizations. Do we say "fuck that grain of sand in particular"? No, but nonetheless we fight the dunes.

Do not confuse spiritual belief with religion. Religion by its very definition is fanaticism.