> Not all religions believe the same thing. ... Not every religion is the same. The article doesn't even suggest anything of the sort. Further, it extends "rel

> Not all religions believe the same thing. ... Not every religion is the same. The article doesn't even suggest anything of the sort. Further, it extends "religious thinking" to include things that aren't religious in the usual sense (anti-vaxxers, for example). The entire point of the article is that there is a different kind of thinking going on when the belief is "religious" vs when it's a belief about reality. As the article states: > when people consider the truth of a religious belief, what the belief does for their lives matters more than, well, the facts. > ... > scholars have determined that people don’t use rational, instrumental reasoning when they deal with religious beliefs. Which, if true, should be: 1) fully grappled with, and 2) actively opposed. Magical/religious/superstitious thinking leads to strongly held beliefs that are impervious to being updated by evidence in a rational manner. Some of these beliefs might be benign or even pro-social -- true -- but at best this process of gaining beliefs is definitely unreliable. At worst, well, we know how it ends at worst.