And if you’re interested in what groups do rather than how they do it, you’re in a vast minority. Good for you—you don’t have to join a church, even a rationalist one! Nobody’s making you!
But people have emotions. It’s not ‘rational’ to ignore this. As Eliezer says, and clarifies in the next post, rationalism [is/is correlated with/causes] winning. If the religious get to have a nice community and we have to do without, then we lose.
Yes, I would like to join a community of people very much like a church, but without all the religious nonsense. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in this.
And if you’re interested in what groups do rather than how they do it, you’re in a vast minority. Good for you—you don’t have to join a church, even a rationalist one! Nobody’s making you!
But people have emotions. It’s not ‘rational’ to ignore this. As Eliezer says, and clarifies in the next post, rationalism [is/is correlated with/causes] winning. If the religious get to have a nice community and we have to do without, then we lose.
Yes, I would like to join a community of people very much like a church, but without all the religious nonsense. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in this.