Interesting, if rationality corresponds to winning, and Christianity is persistent, then we should give up on trying to eliminate Christianity. Not merely because it is a waste of resources, but also because their belief in God is not directly tied to winning and losing. Some beliefs lead to winning (philanthropy, community) and some beliefs lead to losing (insert any one of many here). We should focus energies on discouraging the losing beliefs with whatever means at our disposal, including humoring their belief in God in specific arguments. (For example, we could try and convince a bible literalist that God would forgive them for believing evolution because he deliberately gave us convincing evidence of it.) -- learning as I go, I just learned such arguments are called “Pragmatism”.
I will likely delete this post now that it has been down-voted. I wrote it as a natural response to the information I read and am not attached to it. Before deleting, I’m curious if I can solicit feedback from the person who down-voted me. Because the post was boring?
Interesting, if rationality corresponds to winning, and Christianity is persistent, then we should give up on trying to eliminate Christianity. Not merely because it is a waste of resources, but also because their belief in God is not directly tied to winning and losing. Some beliefs lead to winning (philanthropy, community) and some beliefs lead to losing (insert any one of many here). We should focus energies on discouraging the losing beliefs with whatever means at our disposal, including humoring their belief in God in specific arguments. (For example, we could try and convince a bible literalist that God would forgive them for believing evolution because he deliberately gave us convincing evidence of it.) -- learning as I go, I just learned such arguments are called “Pragmatism”.
I will likely delete this post now that it has been down-voted. I wrote it as a natural response to the information I read and am not attached to it. Before deleting, I’m curious if I can solicit feedback from the person who down-voted me. Because the post was boring?