"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> It depends on the purpose of an individual's belief and/or the purpose of
> the religion. If you want to believe in [...]
> If you want to believe in [...]
> If you want to believe in [...]
> If you want to believe [...]
Gaack! Bleah! Ptooey! I hope you were being sarcastic.
> You can also view religions as being quite valid if the local ET/SIs
> who set up our game as an experiment have a really sick sense of humor.
Or if the Power has persistent motives created by a reigning theocracy.
-- sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://pobox.com/~sentience/tmol-faq/meaningoflife.html Running on BeOS Typing in Dvorak Programming with Patterns Voting for Libertarians Heading for Singularity There Is A Better Way