This succinct and accurate assessment compels Tony into a quick pivot at the waist to look at him alongside, then back forwards.
"Bingo," he says, easy. "Not to mention that culturally speaking, developed nations on my planet have had a several centuries commitment to the widespread denial of magic existing. The way we use that word is in reference to the opposite of rationality. Stuff that can't be explained, empirically, through the framework of modern science. We had it all figured out, and then we did not."
He still resists it, some, but has given up the fight. It's mostly rhetoric, at this point. The baggage, the absence of it, is the main thing.
"We're more of a fan of using religion to justify restricting people's bodily autonomy or military action in foreign countries than we are about bullying wizards. Or witches." God bless America.
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"Bingo," he says, easy. "Not to mention that culturally speaking, developed nations on my planet have had a several centuries commitment to the widespread denial of magic existing. The way we use that word is in reference to the opposite of rationality. Stuff that can't be explained, empirically, through the framework of modern science. We had it all figured out, and then we did not."
He still resists it, some, but has given up the fight. It's mostly rhetoric, at this point. The baggage, the absence of it, is the main thing.
"We're more of a fan of using religion to justify restricting people's bodily autonomy or military action in foreign countries than we are about bullying wizards. Or witches." God bless America.