MichaelVassar comments on How theism works - Less Wrong

51 Post author: ciphergoth 10 April 2009 04:16PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 April 2009 06:20:39PM 1 point [-]

IAWYC. However, it is possible to launch arguments against theism which are so deep as to take out the entire spectrum of religions, including Buddhism and New Age spirituality, in a single blast. See e.g. excluding the supernatural.

Of course, this only invalidates at least one central element of every religion - perhaps their scriptures say somewhere than the sky is blue, or such; reversed stupidity is not intelligence.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 12 April 2009 09:08:45PM 4 points [-]

Certainly some branches of Buddhism and of Taoism explicitly reject the supernatural. Maybe even some Norse mythology does, though that's much less clear to me.