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The real miracle is that someone actually believed it.
I have the displeasure to know someone that believes in this. They believe in many other kinds of bullshit as well...
People ain't coping well with modern conditions.
People have always believed in crazy shit.
With each new communications technology Telegraph, voice recording, radio, Tv and the internet its proponents believed it would end ignorance and usher in an age of reason and enlightenment.
They have ben wrong, every time.
The only thing stronger than human ingenuity is human stupidity.
I think it's more like the contradiction of progress. Things feel less safe while they're statistically still safer than the past kind of thing. As humanity itself grows up with a more informed memory due to communications and education, there is far more to cringe at and change simply because more people observe it now.
People don't change as much as we like to pretend. It takes generations to fix bad things like bigotry and willful ignorance. The ability to communicate quickly across the entire globe for commoners is new.
Hell, I'm not even old enough to have grand kids and I remember thinking that talking to a European on the telephone would be really neat as a kid. Now I get to talk to them on the regular.
Humanity WILL wisen up some day, if we don't kill ourselves off, first. I hope some day it doesn't take entire generations to learn basic concepts like, "trickle down economics is a complete lie".
Gonna need to cope bruh
It's worse than that... this church isn't the only one touting it, and people are giving it to their autistic kids to "cure" them.
They know exactly how to push the buttons of desperate and impressionable people.