Are you actually disagreeing with calcsam, or is this what they call a heated agreement?
I don’t think he’s “framing the improvement in quality of life as an improvement in understanding of the belief system”—he’s saying that some religious people mistakenly do that:
My argument, basically, is that fervently religious people can mistake a successful experience implementing universally good principles as a truth claim for a particular religious system.
I’m not really sure; if he’s not actually asserting that people are gaining a better understanding of their religions, then I can’t tell what it is he’s claiming is there aside from cognitive dissonance.
Are you actually disagreeing with calcsam, or is this what they call a heated agreement?
I don’t think he’s “framing the improvement in quality of life as an improvement in understanding of the belief system”—he’s saying that some religious people mistakenly do that:
I’m not really sure; if he’s not actually asserting that people are gaining a better understanding of their religions, then I can’t tell what it is he’s claiming is there aside from cognitive dissonance.