David_Gerard comments on Recent de-convert saturated by religious community; advice? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: James_Miller 04 April 2011 02:12:19PM *  4 points [-]

There's a significantly lower cost to pretending that you are religious than to pretending that you have a different sexual orientation than you actually do.

Comment author: David_Gerard 04 April 2011 04:46:34PM 1 point [-]

There's a significantly lower cost to pretending that you are religious than to pretending that you have a different sexual orientation than you actually do.

That's a very confident-looking assertion. Surely that would depend who the person in question was and who was doing the measuring.