(November 10, 2015 at 11:50 am)robvalue Wrote: Yeah, I'm waiting to hear what the point of trying to lower the bar is. With no context or examples, I'm left to guess.
What is to be gained by just believing a load of unsupported nonsense? Especially since you then also have to believe other nonsense to be consistent and quickly load up with contradictory "beliefs".
What is gained is community and the benefits of communal action such as killing the village next door and taking their stuff.
Religions work better on false beliefs than true. True beliefs can be proven and shared by everyone. They do not form isolated and subjectively exceptional groups. The more weird a false belief, the stronger ties that are formed between the individuals that can stomach it isolating them from their neighbors.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
