The far right is also in favor of social sanction against blaspheme but since our religion isn't an insane denial of reality you can avoid accidentally running into the Holy Inquisition while doing actual science.https://twitter.com/michaelshermer/status/1232814649034166272 …
Our side doesn't have noble lies - we have different levels of understanding. Your understanding of God is not expected to be the same as someone who leaves more of his understanding of the world in the hands of others but interfering with that person's worldview does him harm.
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Where have I heard this before? Oh, right, it's just like how "concepts like [...] gender identity [...] give the average cis person the necessary information to treat trans people respectfully. Which is ... pretty much exactly the information they need".https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/lies-to-cis-people/ …
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These kinds of Orwellian mind games (telling people "God exists" while secretly defining "God" as a Schelling point for cooperation between strangers) are actually WORSE than Noble Lies! At least Noble Liars KNOW they're lying!http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/blatant-lies-best-kind/ …
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