Nah. A warrior who believes he is fighting for God is more useful to a state than a secular one, because he will be more motivated and more willing to fight on against all odds to the very end.
Religious tribes of the past did not think to themselves, "Hmm, what I believe is not true, but it is useful". They actually believed what they believed.
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I'm not saying people never truly believe in God. But when they do, they believe it in the same way you believe any other proposition.
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They're just wrong because of bad reasoning. You're conflating simply being wrong with embracing alternative epistemology here imo.
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