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#12On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." -Mark 2:17
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#13The point of religion is to solve civilization-scale game theory coordination dilemmas. "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is a mutually beneficial metastable equilibrium but is only stable to the extent that it is a universally adopted principle. A lot of modern tragedies like climate change can be tackled in this way if we can establish universal shared values that apply to all people independent of nationality, status and in p…
It's not the point of religion, it's a side-effect. While religion is a remarkably effective control/coercion tool, there are more ethical ways to establish universal shared values. "Thou Shalt Not Kill" isn't exactly inspirational coming from a book filled with god-sanctioned rape, incest, genocide, and infanticide. People didn't adopt that principle because religion told them to, they adopted it because it allowed them to outcompete the primitive societies that didn't.
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#14There was an interesting little snippet I heard the other day, it was something like "the idea that Religions are things to do that improve ones life puts it in the self-help section of the bookshop." The answer to that I'm more foggy on but its something like "religion is something we are called to do, it's not a shelf in a bookstore or something to be bought into. It's the entire bookstore and it's the city the store is in."
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#15Interesting. I wonder how you square that with results from "are you happy?" surveys comparing the religious and irreligious.
Believing you are happy and actually being happy are different things. Religious people believe that they're happier than other people, but they're not.
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#16Perfect example of why I firmly believe psychology research is trash.
Studied population: 4167 American adults.
Conclusion: All religions are bad.
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#17The point of religion is to solve civilization-scale game theory coordination dilemmas. "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is a mutually beneficial metastable equilibrium but is only stable to the extent that it is a universally adopted principle. A lot of modern tragedies like climate change can be tackled in this way if we can establish universal shared values that apply to all people independent of nationality, status and in p…
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#18Interesting. I wonder how you square that with results from "are you happy?" surveys comparing the religious and irreligious.
Believing you are happy and actually being happy are different things. Religious people believe that they're happier than other people, but they're not.
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#19“ Meta-analyses have pointed to a positive relationship between religiosity and a person’s evaluation of their life, suggesting that people who are more religious tend to feel better about their lives. But researcher Mohsen Joshanloo remarks that these studies have not offered strong evidence of a causal relationship between the two variables. “ E.g. maybe happy people are more likely to be religious, but like with m…
> My favorite stat is that weekly church goers report the highest satisfaction in their sex lives.
Going by kid-count I'd wager we're talking Catholics and Mormons.
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#20The point of religion is to solve civilization-scale game theory coordination dilemmas. "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is a mutually beneficial metastable equilibrium but is only stable to the extent that it is a universally adopted principle. A lot of modern tragedies like climate change can be tackled in this way if we can establish universal shared values that apply to all people independent of nationality, status and in p…
>"The point of religion is..." Citation please
Excellent demonstration of the point of the peer-review religion.