Speaking in tongues is a genuine - and deeply sacred - religious ritual.

I seriously can't tell if you're trolling or just an idiot who is actually trying to defend the religious equivalent of a TikTok user pretending to have autism.

practitioners enter a deliberately induced trance state akin to meditation that causes distinct and measurable changes in brain function.

So you're saying that they can enter the same state with the same changes in brain function without pretending to have a religious experience in which they claim to have spoken with imaginary beings, expecting to be taken seriously?

If I had to choose between sitting quietly in a room with incense burning and music playing or rolling on the ground babbling like an infant, acting like a cringey middle schooler, I kniw what the obvious choice is.

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