The point of my comment really wasn't to denigrate anyone's belief system or to prop up empirical basis as an absolute standard for establishing the veracity or

The point of my comment really wasn't to denigrate anyone's belief system or to prop up empirical basis as an absolute standard for establishing the veracity or value of a claim. The parent commenter expressed concern that people holding these unsubstantiated belief systems as truth was inflicting real harm to society. My point was to say that if this is a real concern, why are we singling out astrology as a punching bag? Basically all major religions entail beliefs which are unsubstantiated by empirical evidence. Do we as individuals really have the capacity harbor ill will towards anyone who chooses to believe things outside what can be verified empirically? I don't! Your belief system may be incompatible with Astrology, and it may possess a richer intellectual tradition than Astrology, but this alone is insufficient to convince me that the faith-based beliefs of one system are inherently superior or more true than the other.