RichardKennaway comments on The Gift We Give To Tomorrow - Less Wrong

44 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 July 2008 06:07AM

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Comment author: Joshua_Fox 17 July 2008 09:38:53AM 8 points [-]

If you replace "love" in this article with "theistic spirituality" -- another aspect of the human psychology which many, if not most, humans consider deeply important and beautiful -- and likewise replace mutatis mutandis other parts of the dialog, would it not just as well argue for the propagation of religion to our descendants?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 05 July 2012 02:17:52PM 1 point [-]

would it not just as well argue for the propagation of religion to our descendants?

Yes, but only to someone who believes the religion.

Someone who disbelieves the religion but nonetheless finds something valuable in "spirituality", should try to find that thing elsewhere rather than collude in at best a noble lie.