Perplexed comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Perplexed 03 October 2010 05:00:01AM 3 points [-]

I think this is ambiguous. It might be interpreted as

  • Christianity is good for its believers - they are better off to believe than to be atheist.
  • Christianity is good for Christendom - it is a positive force for majority Christian societies, as compared to if those societies were mostly atheist.
  • Christianity makes the world a better place, as compared to if all those people were non-believers in any religion.

Which of these do you mean?

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 03 October 2010 06:23:50PM 3 points [-]

Christianity makes the world a better place, as compared to if all those people were non-believers in any religion.

I think a better question is "would the world a better place if people who are currently Christian became their next most likely alternative belief system?". I'm going to go out on a limb here and speculate that if the median Christian lost his faith he wouldn't become a rational-empiricist.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 03 October 2010 05:15:53AM *  3 points [-]

Christianity is good for its believers - they are better off to believe than to be atheist.

I'd change this one to:

  • Christianity is good for most of its believers - they are better off to believe than to be atheist.

~62%

Christianity is good for Christendom - it is a positive force for majority Christian societies, as compared to if those societies were mostly atheist.

~69%

Christianity makes the world a better place, as compared to if all those people were non-believers in any religion.

~58%

Edit: I case it wasn't clear the 70% refers to the disjunction of the above 3.

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