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Multiple religions are thousands of years old and they can't all be true.
by xdennis 2y ago
Multiple religions are thousands of years old and they can't all be true.
- llamaimperative 2y agoPlacebo effect absolutely can yield effects for all religions. That's pretty much what's interesting about it: it doesn't matter much what stimulus is producing the effect.
- adrianN 2y agoThey don't have to be true to have an effect on people.
- tgv 2y agoI think it argues against the claim that it must have had a (real) healing effect for it to be passed along. People are quick to call in the placebo effect, as a scientific sounding explanation, but is nobody reminded of faith healing? People get up out of wheel chairs, cast away their crutches and say they've been healed.
- krapp 2y ago>but is nobody reminded of faith healing? People get up out of wheel chairs, cast away their crutches and say they've been healed. That's just common fakery.
- greenhearth 2y agoIt doesn't sound like anything pure religious, but more of a psychotherapeutic technique, probably coupled with some folk medicine too.