hamnox comments on Religious dogma as group identity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hamnox 28 December 2011 09:20:53PM *  2 points [-]

I never thought I'd see the day that I agreed with Charlie Sheen haha :-)

I often catch myself thinking that there could hardly be a less trivial thing to base a tribal community off of than believing in a man-in-the-sky who doesn't have much visible effect on our world anyways. It's nice to see that I'm not the only one. If you build communities around locality or ideas or policies then those things are not up for discussion. No chance for improvement. No matter how wrong and damaging they are.

But is it an optimal solution for bringing people together? I doubt it. Most of our current versions come with much too extra baggage.