Yes agreed. I think we’re both getting at the same point: religion demands that you believe false things and then undermines your entire epistemics to make you keep upholding those false beliefs. You can do yourself comparable damage by picking some other belief like a political ideology and warping all your other beliefs to fit in. Mike Evron below wrote that he isn’t opposed to religion, he’s opposed to dogma. I think that’s a good way of summarising the point: any false belief is dangerous if it becomes a dogma that resists correction, and religion is unusually good at forming dogma, compared to other types of belief.
Yes agreed. I think we’re both getting at the same point: religion demands that you believe false things and then undermines your entire epistemics to make you keep upholding those false beliefs. You can do yourself comparable damage by picking some other belief like a political ideology and warping all your other beliefs to fit in. Mike Evron below wrote that he isn’t opposed to religion, he’s opposed to dogma. I think that’s a good way of summarising the point: any false belief is dangerous if it becomes a dogma that resists correction, and religion is unusually good at forming dogma, compared to other types of belief.