timtyler comments on BHTV: Yudkowsky & Adam Frank on "religious experience" - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 March 2009 01:33AM

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Comment author: timtyler 24 March 2009 09:10:41PM 3 points [-]

Presumably, epistemic rationality only suffers if you believe untrue things.

The whole idea that religion is concerned with belief is quite a western one. Look at some of the eastern religions, and they are more concerned with what you do and how you live - and do not necessarily place an emphasis on faith.