Well, you could start with something like that, but you’re going to have to set out why it doesn’t solve anything. Which I think means you’re going to have to make the “lady down the street is a witch; she did it” argument. Making that simple enough to fit into a debate slot is a real challenge, but it is the universal rebuke to everything WLC argues.
“saying ‘God’ is an epistemic placebo—it gives you the feeling of a solution without actually solving anything”
something like that?
I like to put it this way: Religion is junk food. It sates the hunger of curiosity without providing the sustenance of knowledge.
Well, you could start with something like that, but you’re going to have to set out why it doesn’t solve anything. Which I think means you’re going to have to make the “lady down the street is a witch; she did it” argument. Making that simple enough to fit into a debate slot is a real challenge, but it is the universal rebuke to everything WLC argues.