What's The Utility of Loving God?
On New Atheism
Pragmatists only care about utility, not truth. For a pragmatist, if there’s no utility to loving God what’s the point? On the other hand, if there is utility, some will argue, why not just jump to the end result and skip the God part?
Love—that’s just chemicals being released in your brain.
Religion—that’s just an evolutionary phenomenon we adapted to f…
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