Magical Thinking does not Compute for this Aspie

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Do any of you struggle to understand why so many Neurotypical individuals insist on structuring their lives around organisations that are selling invisible empirically un-testable ideas? I assume for most it's comfort which seems to make some sense. However, a vocal minority seem to express an attitude of moral superiority even when confronted with their own logical and intellectual short comings. If you can please explain this to me.

This: Believing in myths allows the comfort of having an opinion without the discomfort of having to think.

For many people who subscribe to magical thinking, it is a result of their upbringing. If they are told certain fairy tales from childhood and indoctrinated to believe those fairy tales are unquestionably true, for some reason many people continue to think that even as they grow older. Then they sometimes pass that brainwashing on to THEIR children, and on and on...

IF some hardcore Christians had been born in India, they would probably have been raised Hindu. If born in Pakistan they would probably be Muslim, and so on. A lot of what people believe depends on where they are born and on what their parents believe and what the dominant magical thinking is of their culture. When one realizes that, it is easier to get over the indoctrination and think for oneself.

It depends on whether you are thinking with your emotions/imagination or not. I've had the conflicting thought processes going on at the same time on occasions. The thought process where my imagination comes first makes me wonder about magical concepts and entertain wild ideas. The thought process that is more rational disagrees with these ideas. It creates cognitive dissonance because I know I have no reason to believe in magic and at the same time I feel like it exists. I never make decisions based on these emotional thought processes. I wouldn't ever pay for a psychic reading even though I let my thoughts wander into supernatural subjects on occasion. The emotional thought processes seem to have died out recently so the other one is dominant but I know I can have magical thoughts at times. Just because I have the thoughts doesn't mean that I always agree with them though.

For starters, not everyone values empiricism above epistemologies.

A big thing, for example, is religious experience, an ineffable, internal experience that cannot be empirically verified as anything more than neurones firing, but nevertheless is perceived as being very real by the believer.

Then explain the multitude of very clever people who think deeply about those "myths"?

Sheeple. Intelligent sheeple, but sheeple nonetheless. Their "deep thoughts" are on the order of cartoon fantasies when compared to the thoughts of those people who actually study the universe. A sheeple's faith is based on myths (a.k.a.: unprovable ideas), and faith proves nothing.

if you are referring to a belief in God - it is comfort that I like it for best and I don't think I'm superior to non believers in fact I'd say it's far more likely to be atheists who think they're superior as their favourite topic seems to be going on about how stupid belivers are.

It just suits me better to belive than not and I am generally a logical person. God doesn't need to exist physically for me to be able to focus on him - he's a concept more than a physical thing - this is what a lot of people don't seem to understand