Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-04-28]: Thousands of people came to pay their respect to India's spiritual guru Sai Baba during his funeral. How can such phenomena of worship be explained? The dry atheistic Dawkins-type answer is that these people are just...sheep and stupid. But how objective is such an explanation? For someone who does not believe, it is very easy to categorize billions of people in order to get rid of the burden to explain things that are just...unexplained for him. In how many funerals of scientists have there been so many people? Why? All the difficult questions are sometimes right in front of us and cry out loud...But if you do not want to liste, you will not listen. How many "stupid" friends do you have?
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