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Reposting what I coincidentally wrote yesterday:
Well, a properly scientific view is not dogmatically opposed to concepts that are culturally associated with mysticism. The CPC made a point to investigate and for a time even promoted qi stuff before they felt certain it was nonsense and rejected it. If something under the umbrella of "magic" can observably produce change in the material world, demonstrate it! Such a thing would almost certainly be useful.
The problem is that many new-age pagans take on their "beliefs" about magic as essentially a roleplay: they know deep down it doesn't work but proclaim that it does because the social mindset of it working is somehow involved in its actual use as what amounts to a therapeutic religious practice. There is more in common with Tumblr moon witches and qanon posters than either group would like to admit.
Religion shouldn’t interfere with the realm of medicine, it shouldn’t promote cishet supremacy, it shouldn’t promote racism, most types of nationalism, like region has a lane it needs to stay in and most importantly they shouldn’t be making any fucking money.
Sure, but that's not really what I was discussing.