OrphanWilde comments on Making My Peace with Belief - Less Wrong

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 04 December 2015 02:01:01PM *  1 point [-]

I'm an atheist. I imagine you are too.

So, did you find that article because you, or whoever linked it to you, discovered it - or because you, or they, went looking for something which proved what you or they wanted to believe?

ETA: I've long held that atheists should form social support groups, and take the other best-of aspects of religion. The article is arguing that the things which make religion beneficial have nothing to do with religion. This is untrue; religion is inherently a social activity. It is, by its nature, pro-social. If we're only grudgingly going to admit religion does anything right, that impairs our ability to figure out what it does right, and take those things for ourselves.