Because it keeps religious people from perceiving the book as attacking their beliefs, thus stopping this particular bad reason from making it less persuasive than it is.
Interesting, a Trojan horse for religious memes? Superficially it seems like it doesn’t harm your meme but its inevitable conclusion however does annul it from behind. Yet it subliminally supports a much stronger meme that is AI going FOOM, sneaky!
This is off-topic but very interesting. Anything related to religion is a pretty broad category, I wonder why.
What Vladimir said, plus it keeps atheists from smugly thinking that rationality is primarily about not being religious.
Because it keeps religious people from perceiving the book as attacking their beliefs, thus stopping this particular bad reason from making it less persuasive than it is.
Interesting, a Trojan horse for religious memes? Superficially it seems like it doesn’t harm your meme but its inevitable conclusion however does annul it from behind. Yet it subliminally supports a much stronger meme that is AI going FOOM, sneaky!
Using properties of the bottom line to evaluate validity of arguments is generally an anti-epistemic practice, avoid it in your thinking.
Raising the Sanity Waterline talks about this.