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According to Dennett, it’s just like showing how magicians and musicians do theirs:
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Daniel Dennett On Showing “How Religions Do Their Tricks”
August 28, 2009 at 11:59 pm 
Daniel Fincke 
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When he says tricks, does he mean everything is a ruse? Religion is just another excuse to suppress the mind. Without religion their is no war, no racism, no reason to be scared about what others think.
He does not mean that everything is a deliberate scheme. He is just comparing religion’s mechanisms for affecting us to the ways that music acts upon us in physiologically explicable ways or that magic plays on our perceptive tendencies in certain ways.
He is arguing essentially that religion has such powerful hold on people not because it actually reveals God to them but due to other ways that it affects them which are misinterpreted as divine.