David_Gerard comments on Ritual Report 2012: Life, Death, Light, Darkness, and Love. - Less Wrong
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Well, yeah. The whole point of rituals like this in religion is to switch off thinking and get people going with the flow. The epistemic danger should be pretty obvious. Ritual = irrational.