shminux comments on What Can We Learn About Human Psychology from Christian Apologetics? - Less Wrong

39 Post author: ChrisHallquist 21 October 2013 10:02PM

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Comment author: shminux 22 October 2013 07:50:05PM 2 points [-]

Sorry, I was unclear. My question is, given the title of your post "What can we learn about psychology...", why would it matter if the original event was real or made-up? You can fruitfully study the psychology of the apologetics either way.

Comment author: ChrisHallquist 22 October 2013 07:52:52PM 1 point [-]

As already explained, long before this post I spent a lot of time reading Christian apologetics for other reasons.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 24 October 2013 08:26:19PM 3 points [-]

I think what's going on here is a misinterpretation of your intention with the "Judaism is in the unfortunate situation..." comment. You were indicating why in the past you had not thought about them, and not that they would be any more or less illuminating for this purpose... right?

Comment author: ChrisHallquist 25 October 2013 05:09:36AM -1 points [-]

Yes.