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This is beautiful. My only problem with it is that I can't show it to anyone who'd be able to directly benefit from the cognitive dissonance, because they would be too offended about being compared to Nazis to glean anything useful.
I think you, perhaps, miss the ideal target audience of this post. What Yvain presents here is in effect a counterargument against people who argue that religion isn't all that bad, even if it's false, because of the other benefits it gives people. Anyone who is reduced to defending religion on these grounds is likely not a typical theist.
This isn't an argument against theism, it's "opiate of the masses" vs. "just say no to drugs".
Sure. But I wouldn't be inclined to try to convince those people because I'm inclined to tolerate tolerance of religion.
Hmm... I think the argument against objecting when people don't dislike religion enough is a lot stronger than the argument against objecting when people actually spread false statements minimizing the harm from religion.
I think it's bad to punish people for their tolerance, but it has to be OK to try to change their mind?