A non theological case of ridiculous assumptions...

If you're talking about that certain gullibility that seems to go along with religious devotion then I agree. I see it all the time. Hell, we all see it; look at the commercials for amazing new pills that make you lose weight and regrow hair and tighten your abs while you sleep. Enough people are buying that crap - in the belief that it will actually work - that the pushers are able to afford ad budgets that get the name of their product into our faces several times a day. It wasn't so long ago that you almost had to go looking for that kind of stuff. You could find it late at night maybe, on low-rated talk radio stations, but not on mainstream tv networks. That's changed, and I think it's a by-product of our new faith-based society.Come to my town and show me someone who believes in ghosts and is scared of pentograms. I'll show you a born-again Christian.

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However, to be fair to literal fundi's, I don't think it's limited to religious adherents.

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No, and I see I was a little vague. What I meant was that when a culture is trained to believe in things that are impossible - global floods, the sun stopping in the sky, virgin births, etc. - it is much easier to fool the people within that culture into believing in things like miracle pills that make you lose weight while you sleep. Americans are not taught to be skeptical.I agree with you about the tech degrees that don't require studies in the humanities. Definitely part of the problem.

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