OK so this is an anti-religion thing? Because mindfulness and meditation, while linked with religion, does not require the religious aspect to function. I mean

OK so this is an anti-religion thing? Because mindfulness and meditation, while linked with religion, does not require the religious aspect to function. I mean hell, Buddhism doesn't have a God, nor (depending on the sect) any supernatural elements. You can be skeptical all you want, but rejecting practices purely because they started out with religious explanations is just as irrational as accepting them because of those same reasons. Many medicines are based on natural substances that were initially based on traditional and herbal remedies and I'm sure they were originally given religious explanations - religion was basically the stopgap explanation for anything we didn't understand back in ancient history. And for what it's worth, I'm a radical materialist.