army1987 comments on Religion's Claim to be Non-Disprovable - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pnrjulius 19 May 2012 05:08:34AM 3 points [-]

We have slain religion in the minds of intellectuals. But we have not slain it in the minds of ordinary people, and for better or worse ordinary people have a lot of power in modern democratic societies. So it seems to me rather imperative to find ways to improve the rationality of ordinary folk, and one very good start would be getting rid of religion.

Comment author: [deleted] 15 April 2013 12:19:52PM 1 point [-]

and one very good start would be getting rid of religion

I dunno -- I can think of many more important things; focussing on religion of all things sounds somewhat arbitrary to me.