Sophronius comments on A game of angels and devils - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sophronius 27 September 2013 09:33:28PM 4 points [-]

Stalin's soviet Russia suppressed religion, not faith. It wasn't exactly a haven for critical thinking.

Comment author: bogdanb 27 September 2013 10:25:40PM -1 points [-]

Personally I agree, but if I were a devil I’d just fall in love with the kind of double-think you’d need to . After all, I wouldn’t actually want to suppress faith, I’d just want to create in people’s minds associations between atheism and nice places like Stalinist Russia. Phrases like “scientific socialism” would just send nice little shivers of pleasure down any nice devil’s spine, wouldn’t they?