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To the best of my recollection I have never heard Sam Harris recite this passage of text before but it sounds like he is talking about his his 2005 book: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.

From the book:—”While moderation in religion may seem a reasonable position to stake out, in light of all that we have (and have not) learned about the universe, it offers no bulwark against religious extremism and religious violence. From the perspective of those seeking to live by the letter of the texts, the religious moderate is nothing more than a failed fundamentalist. He is, in all likelihood, going to wind up in hell with the rest of the unbelievers. The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism. We cannot say that fundamentalists are crazy, because they are merely practicing their freedom of belief; we cannot even say that they are mistaken in religious terms, because their knowledge of scripture is generally unrivaled. All we can say, as religious moderates, is that we don’t like the personal and social costs that a full embrace of scripture imposes on us. This is not a new form of faith, or even a new species of scriptural exegesis; it is simply a capitulation to a variety of all-too-human interests that have nothing, in principle, to do with God. Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance—and it has no bona fides, in religious terms, to put it on par with fundamentalism. The texts themselves are unequivocal: they are perfect in all their parts. By their light, religious moderation appears to be nothing more than an unwillingness to fully submit to God’s law. By failing to live by the letter of the texts, while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally. Unless the core dogmas of faith are called into question—i.e., that we know there is a God, and that we know what he wants from us—religious moderation will do nothing to lead us out of the wilderness.”—

The Problem with Religion #samharris #shorts

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The End of Faith by Sam Harris

It’s going to take me a long time to say everything I want to say about this book. And it starts here: One of the central themes of this …

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“I would challenge anyone here to think of a questions upon which we once had a scientific answer, however inadequate, but for which now the best answer is a religious one.” ― Sam Harris

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“Well I like it and it makes me feel good”.

I grow so frustrated when I hear an arguement like that thinking just how or why should I change my mind, change my thinking, after hearing that?

Sam Harris has said:

The fact that it would be nice if something were true, or the fact of your believing it to be true gives you some positive effect in your life is NOT a reason to believe that it is true.

Humans Are Great at Arguing but Bad at Reasoning. Here’s Why.

“The colloquial definition of rationality, the way that most people actually use the word, is to mean ‘whatever I happen to believe.'” Julia Galef is the president and co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality, a Berkeley, California-based non-profit whose workshops teach participants to apply the lessons of cognitive science and rationality to their lives.

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Sam Harris on Mindfulness as Secular Meditation – Video

The stress-reductive benefits of meditation are trivial compared to the insights one can discover about the nature of the self.

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