JoshuaZ comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 03 October 2010 10:06:55PM *  9 points [-]

Note that it is in general very hard to tell if the artistic and cultural contributions associated with religion are actually due to religion. In highly religious cultures that's often the only form of expression that one is able to get funding for. Dan Barker wrote an essay about this showing how a lot of classical composers were agnostics, atheists or deists who wrote music with religious overtones mainly because that was their only option.