You can’t thoroughly destroy a lie until you know what the truth is; false memes will persist until they can be taken down be something that is clearly, demonstrably true. (Before that point, the best you can do is replace one false meme with another one).
This presumes that humans will reliably update towards the truth when given appropriate evidence.
It is impossible to hold this belief, and also believe that Christianity (for example) exists.
It presumes merely that there exist a subset of humans who will reliably update towards the truth when given appropriate evidence. There is much evidence on this site that many of the commenters believe themselves part of such a subset.
As a Roman Catholic myself, I have to wonder what widespread evidence there is that you believe disproves Christianity.
This presumes that humans will reliably update towards the truth when given appropriate evidence.
It is impossible to hold this belief, and also believe that Christianity (for example) exists.
It presumes merely that there exist a subset of humans who will reliably update towards the truth when given appropriate evidence. There is much evidence on this site that many of the commenters believe themselves part of such a subset.
As a Roman Catholic myself, I have to wonder what widespread evidence there is that you believe disproves Christianity.
Just because they believe themselves to be X, doesn’t mean that they’re actually X...