Cool story. I’m not an atheist.

If people want to believe fairy tales, fine, doesn’t hurt me. I draw the line at theocracy, creating a legal system based on fairy tales that I’m coerced into using.

Ibn Battuta was an accomplished scholar who became famous for his extensive travels and writings about such. There are serious first hand accounts of magic in his writings. He was otherwise an educated, observant and intelligent man who was doing his best to objectively relay his experiences. Do...