Arandur comments on Expecting Short Inferential Distances - Less Wrong
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The same influences that make people toss Christianity are also what will influence people to become more rational. Leading people to lesswrong on average makes them scoff then add things to their stereotype cache.
If Christianity is wrong then I'd say neither. ;)
This, if true, is horribly sad, and I concede the point, letting go of my faith in the inherent open-mindedness of humanity. Of course, I might have known better; my own efforts have reaped no fruit except my wife thinking of Eliezer Yudkowsky as a rabid crackpot. :/
Ha! Then let me elucidate, and define the term "sin" to mean that action which runs against a given moral code.