The answer is so simple, I don’t understand why you guys are so strained about it.
Teach people to base their beliefs on reality. Teach them to systematically check their beliefs to make sure they’re connected to reality. Via induction and conceptual reduction. (If you want to prove that an abstract concept is connected to reality, you break it apart into its constituent concepts. Keep doing this until you’ve broken the abstract concept up into 1st-level concepts that represent percepts Once you get from the abstract concept to the perceptual level, your idea has been proven to be connected to reality.)
The problem underlying religion is that people think faith is an acceptable source of knowledge. Teach them that all knowledge must be derived from observation, and you can undercut religion.
“Faith in the supernatural begins as faith in the superiority of others.” -John Galt
The answer is so simple, I don’t understand why you guys are so strained about it.
Teach people to base their beliefs on reality. Teach them to systematically check their beliefs to make sure they’re connected to reality. Via induction and conceptual reduction. (If you want to prove that an abstract concept is connected to reality, you break it apart into its constituent concepts. Keep doing this until you’ve broken the abstract concept up into 1st-level concepts that represent percepts Once you get from the abstract concept to the perceptual level, your idea has been proven to be connected to reality.)
The problem underlying religion is that people think faith is an acceptable source of knowledge. Teach them that all knowledge must be derived from observation, and you can undercut religion.
“Faith in the supernatural begins as faith in the superiority of others.” -John Galt
You fail to make a clear distinction between simple and easy.