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A most excellent summary. It's funny how hardly anyone in this comment thread seems to have taken away this message. I do however see a whole lot of rather def
by dTal 8y ago
A most excellent summary.
It's funny how hardly anyone in this comment thread seems to have taken away this message. I do however see a whole lot of rather defensive comments about how religion is useless and bad for this reason or that reason, or attacking the article (which I thought was very reasonably written) for religious apology. I think that offers a visible example of the phenomenon under discussion - any suggestion of positive things flowing from religion is met with a kind of allergic reaction.
- AstralStorm 8y agoThe religion as a concept has a use or a few. The allergy cuts both ways, with religious people not wanting their sociotechnological or psychological practices broken down and appropriated without core memes. To do so is considered heresy or worse. More so if done with required irreverence of science where anything can be shown wrong.