Here’s an excerpt from Harris’s article:
The truth is, there is not a person on Earth who has a good reason to believe that Jesus rose from the dead or that Muhammad spoke to the angel Gabriel in a cave. And yet billions of people claim to be certain about such things. As a result, Iron Age ideas about everything high and low — sex, cosmology, gender equality, immortal souls, the end of the world, the validity of prophecy, etc. — continue to divide our world and subvert our national discourse. Many of these ideas, by their very nature, hobble science, inflame human conflict and squander scarce resources.
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Wow, that's pretty well said.
Big Sam Harris fan here. And Richard Dawkins, and PZ Myers. I'd reached their positions before I heard of them. Really reading the Bible does that sometimes.
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