We must not preserve the myth of God – it was a useful crutch, but we’ve outgrown it The question: Should we believe in belief? As I explain in the chapter by that title in Breaking the Spell, “belief in belief” is a common phenomenon not restricted to religions. Economists realise that a sound currency depends on […]
Belief in Belief
Belief in Belief – Eliezer Yudkowsky
Carl Sagan once told a parable of a man who comes to us and claims: “There is a dragon in my garage.” Fascinating! We reply that we wish to see this dragon—let us set out at once for the garage! “But wait,” the claimant says to us, “it is an invisible dragon.” Now as Sagan points out, this […]
Wizard of Oz Syndrome*
I have taken the article below from: http://exodusmyth.com/2017/05/26/wizard-of-oz/ It is quite frankly a literate and compelling article and certainly spoke to me. It was pointless writing in my own words, because what the article states I could not have made any clearer. When Toto pulls the curtain to reveal that Oz is not an omnipotent deity, […]