Does Less Wrong really recommend withdrawing from religious groups? I don’t see that recommendation in any of the four links you give as support. Less Wrong will tell you that religions’ supernatural claims are false wherever they’re meaningful, and that a lot of religious beliefs are harmful as well as false. And it will tell you to be an atheist[1]. It’s understandable that most of us who realized at some point that God isn’t real decided to stop going to church. But some of us are involved with religious groups and it doesn’t seem to be problematic.
[1] although you can get away with ignosticism or “I assign low credence to any recognizably theistic hypothesis, but I don’t like the word ‘atheism’” or “blah blah Tegmark”.
Does Less Wrong really recommend withdrawing from religious groups? I don’t see that recommendation in any of the four links you give as support. Less Wrong will tell you that religions’ supernatural claims are false wherever they’re meaningful, and that a lot of religious beliefs are harmful as well as false. And it will tell you to be an atheist[1]. It’s understandable that most of us who realized at some point that God isn’t real decided to stop going to church. But some of us are involved with religious groups and it doesn’t seem to be problematic.
[1] although you can get away with ignosticism or “I assign low credence to any recognizably theistic hypothesis, but I don’t like the word ‘atheism’” or “blah blah Tegmark”.