<story><title>I Flew to Lagos and Got Beaten Up Because of a Nigerian Email Scam</title><url>http://www.vice.com/en_se/read/i-am-an-idiot-0000167-v20n12</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herbig</author><text>&amp;quot;I’m superstitious, so one night I told myself, All right, if I win a game of hearts with less than 15 points, I’ll do it. I’d never scored that low in my life, so when I landed at 11 points, I thought it was a sign and decided to buy a ticket.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s your problem right there.  People like this are prone to other irrational thinking.  I would bet that the vast majority of people who fall for this stuff are also deeply religious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jscheel</author><text>This was self-confirmation and had nothing to do with religion. Please take your hate to &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;atheism.</text></comment>
<story><title>I Flew to Lagos and Got Beaten Up Because of a Nigerian Email Scam</title><url>http://www.vice.com/en_se/read/i-am-an-idiot-0000167-v20n12</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herbig</author><text>&amp;quot;I’m superstitious, so one night I told myself, All right, if I win a game of hearts with less than 15 points, I’ll do it. I’d never scored that low in my life, so when I landed at 11 points, I thought it was a sign and decided to buy a ticket.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s your problem right there.  People like this are prone to other irrational thinking.  I would bet that the vast majority of people who fall for this stuff are also deeply religious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smsm42</author><text>You know there&amp;#x27;s a difference between being religious and asking Hearts game to tell you if you should participate in the 419 scam? Most religions actually frown very hard of those kind of things. For Avraamic religions, there&amp;#x27;s a direct prohibition of such practices in Leviticus 19:26.</text></comment>