> Following a religion improves your daily actions, feels wonderful, and connects you to a worldwide community. These are better reasons than insisting it’s absolutely true.
Religion terrifies me, I don't feel wonderful thinking about eternal existence in the afterlife. Even if there was some proof that the afterlife did exist, I would most likely pretend it doesn't exist.
You can get a sense of community doing many other things.
> Same with philosophies, nationalities, norms, and concepts like loyalty, destiny, and identity. None of these are true. But they are useful.
I don't know what this means. How can nationalities not be true? Philosophies do not claim to be true, they are just a logically consistent framework.
No idea how it applies to concepts either.
Religion terrifies me, I don't feel wonderful thinking about eternal existence in the afterlife. Even if there was some proof that the afterlife did exist, I would most likely pretend it doesn't exist.
You can get a sense of community doing many other things.
> Same with philosophies, nationalities, norms, and concepts like loyalty, destiny, and identity. None of these are true. But they are useful.
I don't know what this means. How can nationalities not be true? Philosophies do not claim to be true, they are just a logically consistent framework.
No idea how it applies to concepts either.