This is the follow-up post from https://lemmy.world/post/50041395

Edit: this crazy bitch got banned from multiple airlines. https://www.joemygod.com/2026/08/airline-bans-sky-evangelist-for-annoying-passengers/

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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.

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