Brainstorm

[Excited Penguin]

Explain to me why believing any untrue thing about the world is inherently bad.

Well, I'm sorry. Is the word bad to have any meaning at all if we can't even use it when talking about false beliefs about the world? How can believing something untrue be good? I can see some scenarios where that would very well be the case, but at the same time I'm quite confident you're not exactly arguing with me about this on philosophical grounds, rather your position is much simpler than that. Would you please explain to me what your actual position on this is, so I can better explain to you mine? For instance, do you believe that religion can be good? If so, how - provide examples and the necessary reasoning, please.


But really, I think here we are arguing about the definition of the word bad. Please tell me what you understand by it, so I can see how it doesn't work for you in this instance. I'm certainly not referring to this definition: 
NORTH AMERICAN informal
good; excellent.
"they want the baddest, best-looking Corvette there is"

To your other point, there has to be something to be skeptical of in order to be a skeptic. 

Wouldn't you consider yourself to be a skeptic? I have no idea where you're going with this. I feel like you're not actually adressing what I really said.

Also remember that a sizable portion of atheists were once religious.

That only goes to show that people can change.

And many bad explanations and practices have been eradicated through new knowledge and technology, yes...but religion has always been there through all of it.

What does that even mean? That religion is still around, despite all the progress in other areas?