It's a failure of an education system when it doesn't teach people to differentiate between beliefs that are supported by evidence and likely to be true and ones that are not. Believing in paganism or the like is the same as believing in the force. There's no evidence for any of it and no reason to think it's right. All it is is taking a wish and treating it like reality.
Harmless beliefs aren't a problem but that doesn't mean they should just be left alone. They aren't a major threat to anyone, though the mindset they encourage can be a threat itself, but if you have any respect for a concept like truth or reality then you will find it important to challenge such beliefs. As it is even people with those beliefs have a desire for the truth,there are very few people who would say they don't care if what they believe is real or not.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
It's a failure of an education system when it doesn't teach people to differentiate between beliefs that are supported by evidence and likely to be true and ones that are not. Believing in paganism or the like is the same as believing in the force. There's no evidence for any of it and no reason to think it's right. All it is is taking a wish and treating it like reality.
Harmless beliefs aren't a problem but that doesn't mean they should just be left alone. They aren't a major threat to anyone, though the mindset they encourage can be a threat itself, but if you have any respect for a concept like truth or reality then you will find it important to challenge such beliefs. As it is even people with those beliefs have a desire for the truth,there are very few people who would say they don't care if what they believe is real or not.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~