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Well, "more true" beliefs about engineering can create bridges that can stand longer, and "more true" beliefs about economics can create economies that can generate more wealth, so in this sense truth exist. I value these goals, because these sounds nice to me and thus generate positive emotions...

Beliefs are usually tools to assume higher social status and position. There are exeptions, "smart sincere syndrome" ;) as Robin Hanson ( Robin Hanson - Wikipedia ) calls these, and I think that we may have a few such people in this very thread. Such honest ideological consistency without...

But complaining is also evolutionary strategy, just as use of violence (guns). Social games of intelligent social animal are kind of subtle! No God needed. Look, I think that...: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/the-smart-sincere-syndrome.html

True statements exist as much as they make falsifable claims. There are more true than false, statistically, ways to build bridges and treat cancer than others. You know this out of statistical patterns in accident/death rates. And, for sure, there are more true than false ways to increase...

But your interpretation of the Bible is not obvious to anyone besides niche circles of you and your ideological friends. Even the Catholic Social Teaching enjoy more power. Not soldiers, but money, priests and journalists. You think that your interpretation of the Bible is "true", but to people...

Discussion about the existence of God is something, I think, not well suited for this thread. Supreme Being can exist or not, Deist or Christian or Islamic or whatever, but until such supreme creature (if there is such) intervene visibly, interpretation of their wish depends entirely on human...

Oh, but it historically was. Interpretation of Christianity was, for example during the 30-years war of the 1618-1648, a political tool like all others. Your interpretation rules if you or your friends enjoy enough Power, as is the case with any ideology.

And argument that belief in God is an useful tool to promote free markets is, I think, very suspect. Bible was historically interpreted in 1001 ways.

All religious and secular ideologies can be defined as anything somebody wants. Christianity can be defined as somebody wish, from free-market-friendly sects of protestantism to communist Liberation Theology or, in the other direction, to authoritarian medieval popes. Whether your...

Imagine that you are a politician and a lobby of hairdressers approaches you. They want you to promote a new regulation, 2 years of mandatory training for any new hairdressers, done by people certified by their group. Now, if you refuse, you possibly make enemies. If you agree, you make...