RichardKennaway comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 05 January 2010 12:32:49PM 0 points [-]

In this sort of environment, Jeffreyssai poses the question: "Find what is valuable in religion."

Among the false starts that he will instantly slap down are responses that say what is non-valuable or pernicious ("This was not the question. Do not waste our time rehearsing irrelevancies known to us all"), evolutionary explanations of religion ("What is valuable, not what merely happened"), religiously motivated good works ("we do superior works without"), and any concept of useful lies.