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Intelligence upgrade/uplevel Open source reality : An Atheist Manifesto

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sayzie

Aaaah, I can breathe again
Sam Harris makes perfect sense. I urge everyone to read The End of Faith. Twice. He writes well, he's done his research, he's funny, and he's right. - sayzie , posted 07/12/06

synthum

Imagine there is no heaven ; getting over it: Atheist manifesto
An Atheist Manifesto
A Dig led by Sam Harris

Editor?s Note: At a time when fundamentalist religion has an unparalleled influence in the highest government levels in the United States, and religion-based terror dominates the world stage, Sam Harris argues that progressive tolerance of ?faith-based unreason? is as great a menace as religion itself. Harris, a philosophy graduate of Stanford who has studied eastern and western religions, won the 2004 PEN Award for nonfiction for The End of Faith, which powerfully examines and explodes the absurdities of organized religion. Truthdig asked Harris to write a charter document for his thesis that belief in God, and appeasement of religious extremists of all faiths by moderates, has been?and continues to be?the greatest threat to world peace and a sustained assault on reason.

Somewhere in the world a man has abducted a little girl. Soon he will rape, torture and kill her. If an atrocity of this kind is not occurring at precisely this moment, it will happen in a few hours, or days at most. Such is the confidence we can draw from the statistical laws that govern the lives of 6 billion human beings. The same statistics also suggest that this girl?s parents believe?at this very moment?that an all-powerful and all-loving God is watching over them and their family. Are they right to believe this? Is it good that they believe this?

No.
www.truthdig.com/dig/item/...manifesto/ - synthum , posted 12/10/05

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