Today’s post, Church vs. Taskforce was originally published on 28 March 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
Churches serve a role of providing community—but they aren’t explicitly optimized for this, because their nominal role is different. If we desire community without church, can we go one better in the course of deleting religion? There’s a great deal of work to be done in the world; rationalist communities might potentially organize themselves around good causes, while explicitly optimizing for community.
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[SEQ RERUN] Church vs. Taskforce
Today’s post, Church vs. Taskforce was originally published on 28 March 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
Discuss the post here (rather than in the comments to the original post).
This post is part of the Rerunning the Sequences series, where we’ll be going through Eliezer Yudkowsky’s old posts in order so that people who are interested can (re-)read and discuss them. The previous post was Can Humanism Match Religion’s Output?, and you can use the sequence_reruns tag or rss feed to follow the rest of the series.
Sequence reruns are a community-driven effort. You can participate by re-reading the sequence post, discussing it here, posting the next day’s sequence reruns post, or summarizing forthcoming articles on the wiki. Go here for more details, or to have meta discussions about the Rerunning the Sequences series.