In order to dissolve the disagreement: I think the first sentence of my original comment here was ill-posed. It makes sense to me because it serves as a convenient pointer for the type of “religion” espoused by a significant proportion of people which involves “belief” and “faith” and does not actually contain any differences in anticipated experience from a non-religious position. However, given only the original sentence it does not mean much. And even with elaboration it is pretty much going to be tautological. As to my second post I expect that contemplating that particular “counterfactual” is going to be along the lines of considering the “counterfactual” under which 2+2=5 which I do not anticipate being a particularly enlightening discussion based on what I’ve already read on the subject.
In order to dissolve the disagreement: I think the first sentence of my original comment here was ill-posed. It makes sense to me because it serves as a convenient pointer for the type of “religion” espoused by a significant proportion of people which involves “belief” and “faith” and does not actually contain any differences in anticipated experience from a non-religious position. However, given only the original sentence it does not mean much. And even with elaboration it is pretty much going to be tautological. As to my second post I expect that contemplating that particular “counterfactual” is going to be along the lines of considering the “counterfactual” under which 2+2=5 which I do not anticipate being a particularly enlightening discussion based on what I’ve already read on the subject.