jacoblyles comments on A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jacoblyles 18 July 2012 08:04:55AM *  0 points [-]

Certain self-consistent metaphysics and epistemologies lead you to belief in God. And a lot of human emotions do too. If you eliminated all the religions in the world, you would soon have new religions with 1) smart people accepting some form of philosophy that leads them to theism 2) lots of less smart people forming into mutually supporting congregations. Hopefully you get all the "religion of love" stuff from Christianity (historically a rarity) and the congregations produce public goods and charity.