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Comment author: MBlume 18 March 2009 03:18:18AM *  6 points [-]

Terry Pratchett works, though. I can't really see a kid ever getting religion after that.

I would agree in principle -- Pratchett's work is a remarkably good illustration of what the world would look like if supernaturalist thinking made a scrap of sense -- except that the most enthusiastic Pratchett fan I ever met was (unfortunately for me) also a devout theist.

I think I have ceased to be surprised at the ability of intelligent people to compartmentalize.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 March 2009 03:21:21AM 10 points [-]

My parents also read Pratchett. My little brother did too. You'd just have to get the Pratchett books before you got religion, and then, I think, it would act as a pretty powerful vaccine. At least it seems like it ought to...