Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

9- Rediscovered this piece "The Opiate of the Middle Class": religious beliefs are not epistemic; were never meant to be so. "Amen" means "I trust" not I believe in the scientific-epistemic sense. Another error from the "enlightenment". You can learn from Pinker in reverse. https://t.co/2DW7N3mHwZ — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

9- When you pledge allegiance or submission to a god, you are in fact pledging allegiance to a group,across generations Αι γενεαί πάσαι. كامل الأجيال Karen Armstrong discusses pblm w/"pisteuo" (tr. credo), a committment, not a belief in the modern sense. https://t.co/jqnzkruSF8 — PolitiTweet.org