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=> Professional atheist Sam Harris looks like an idiot in this email exchange

Professional atheist Sam Harris looks like an idiot in this email exchange
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Tuesday, May 5 2015, 16:36:54 (UTC)
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Chomsky's comment about Hitchens and Harris placing State Power in the position of God is spot balls on. Hitchens especially sounded just like a recent convert to a religion who is gung-holier than thou....in his case he had this weird and unfounded "faith" in the government of the United States to do the right, the moral, thing....he sounded just like an Old Testicle prophet. Both these guys illuminate our puzzlement at how such otherwise intelligent people can believe in religion...in their case one wonders how such intelligent people can believe in the State.

Love your country, by all means, but NEVER love or trust a government.

Chomsky was right to first probe Harris's thinking before engaging in any public debate...in fact, their exchange reminds me of several I had with Assyrian "thinkers" They too would skip all the points raised to go off on tangents...and finally they too would declare any further exchange was a "waste of time"....mostly because THEY wasted the time instead of getting down to just the issues at hand.

By Harris's illogic you could justify slavery and even the Holocaust, because in both cases the perpetrators believed they were acting out of moral right....in fact, I could rape a woman, or a child, and then give each a scholarship to Harvard as a way of "bettering their lives".....and this "advantage" would only have come to them after the rape...didn't I do good too?



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