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V_V comments on Robert Aumann on Judaism - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: iarwain1 21 August 2015 07:13PM

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Comment author: V_V 22 August 2015 10:12:49PM 2 points [-]

But lying your entire life, even to your children (you can't risk teaching them anything other than the official truth) can be mentally exhausting.

Add the fact that core religious ideas seem intuitively appealing to most people, to the point that even ostensibly atheist people often end up believing in variants of them, and you get why religion is so popular.