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21 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 July 2008 09:48AM

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Comment author: The_Uncredible_Hallq 10 July 2008 05:40:02PM 0 points [-]

Eliezer: Thanks for the link, man.

Silas & Patrick: Don't think this applies only to liberal denominations. If you accept Dennett's idea that even fundamentalism is less about ordinary belief than belief in belief, there's the potential for common knowledge to disrupt religion's function as belief in belief. But it's more obvious in liberal religion.

Steven: Thanks for correcting my terminology. I was doing my best to follow Pinker's usage, but was unsure of this point.