I didn't read this whole article. But I'll just throw in my two cents. You have to admit that religion is kinda stupid. But there's a flipside to that, and that, most everything is pretty stupid. Also, Dennett seems like a jerk.
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“…it’s hard to resist your own substance, you’d like to stop all this, give yourself time to think about it and listen without difficulty to your heartbeat, but it’s too late for that. This thing can never stop. This enormous steel box is on a collision course; we, inside it, are whirling madly with the machines and the Earth. All together, along with the thousands of little wheels and hammers that never strike at the same time, that make noises which shatter one another, some so violent that they release a kind of silence around them, which makes you feel a little better. You give into noise as you give in to war. As the machines you let yourself go with the two three ideas that are wobbling about at the top of your head. And that’s the end. From then on everything you look at, everything you touch is hard. And everything you still manage to remember more or less becomes as rigid as iron and loses its savor in your thoughts.” Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
“It’s not that I like the empire—I hate it—but there’s nothing I can do about it right now.” Luke Skywalker, Star Wars
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it's a bizarre review. on the one hand, the guy seems like a dick. on the other, the review sounds like it was written by jerry falwell.
if jerry falwell could read.
summary of position: contemporary science is also religion; religion is often stupid. but sometimes it's a Good Thing. but when it's a Good Thing, there's no publicity, because it's quiet and modest and not connected with
what does any of it have to do with being nice to other people? not much, apparently.
buncha jerks, all around.
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