A rather sane article about the actual purpose of religions and why they persist among the rational & intelligent.
http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2010/12/04/getting-religion/
A bit of a Hansonian bent as well. “Genuine objective truths can be complicated and uncomfortable, but what’s worse, they confer no particular social advantage ”
It’s not about truth
A rather sane article about the actual purpose of religions and why they persist among the rational & intelligent.
http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2010/12/04/getting-religion/
A bit of a Hansonian bent as well. “Genuine objective truths can be complicated and uncomfortable, but what’s worse, they confer no particular social advantage ”