ChristianKl comments on Rationality Quotes February 2013 - Less Wrong
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If you threaten someone in their survival they are likely to get emotional. That's not the best mental state to apply logic.
Suicide bombers don't suddenly start believing in reason just before they are send out to kill themselves.
Soldiers in trenches who fear for their lives on the other hand do often start to pray. Maybe there are a few atheists in foxholes, but that state seems to promote religiousness.
Does it promote religiousness or attract the religious?
I think it just promotes grasping at straws.