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Religion is a complex group of human activities — involving commitment to higher power, belief in belief, and a range of shared group practices such as worship meetings, rites of passage, etc.

See also

  • Groupthink, Affective death spiral
  • Belief in belief, improper belief
  • Epistemic hygiene
  • Truth
  • Rationalization, self-deception
  • Magic, fake simplicity
  • Absurdity heuristic
  • Third alternative
  • Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions

External links

  • BHTV: Yudkowsky & Adam Frank on "religious experience"
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23Should some variant of longtermism identify as a religion?
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-7Religion is Good, Actually
Gordon Seidoh Worley
4mo
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53Answer to Job
Scott Alexander
8y
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289Religion's Claim to be Non-Disprovable
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
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197Beyond the Reach of God
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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181A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies
Scott Alexander
14y
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177Talking Snakes: A Cautionary Tale
Scott Alexander
14y
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98Professing and Cheering
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
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81The Four Children of the Seder as the Simulacra Levels
Zvi
3y
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66What Can We Learn About Human Psychology from Christian Apologetics?
ChrisHallquist
10y
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50You May Already Be A Sinner
Scott Alexander
14y
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48The Galileo affair: who was on the side of rationality?
Val
8y
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19God and Moses have a chat
Yitz
3y
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13What is filling the hole left by religion?
Philip Dhingra
3y
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