Lumifer comments on Rationality Quotes December 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 22 December 2014 09:10:04PM -2 points [-]

I assume this is a pro-cryonics quote, but I don't quite see how it relates to rationality. Its point is, quite clearly, "Accept Jesus as your personal savior and gain the gift of Eternal Life".

Comment author: gjm 22 December 2014 11:27:02PM 8 points [-]

It seems to me it's anti-death rather than pro-cryonics; the two aren't quite the same, and in particular being anti-death no more implies being pro-cryonics than it implies being pro-Jesus. And while no doubt Bergoglio's (= Pope Francis's) anti-death-ism is tightly tied up with his pro-Jesus-ism, what he's written here can stand on its own as an expression of an anti-death attitude.

(I'm not sure being strongly opposed to death should really qualify something as a Rationality Quote either, but that's a different complaint from "it's really all about Jesus".)