timtyler comments on Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 02 January 2011 05:15:24PM * 0 points [-]

organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority - The God Delusion

Maybe - but they seem to work together well enough - if you pay them.

Comment author: shokwave 02 January 2011 05:25:16PM 3 points [-]

Whereas theists will pay tithes to be ordered around.

Comment author: timtyler 02 January 2011 05:48:46PM 0 points [-]

They war with other theists as well. Cooperation benefits from a shared mission.