Posts Tagged by Sam Harris
Response to Shagbark (4 of 4)
| May 6, 2012 | Posted by Joseph Keysor under Blog |
“What scientific evidence do you have to prove God does not exist – not inferences or arguments, but evidence?” It is a waste of time to try to prove God does not exist, since, as I noted above, we can do nothing with the information unless we can know something about this God. Therefore the…
Questions for atheists cont’d. (part 7 of 7)
| August 2, 2011 | Posted by Joseph Keysor under Blog |
79. In The End of Faith, Harris stated that “Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them” (pp. 52-53). This raised so many eyebrows, even among atheists, that Harris felt obliged to issue some clarification on the internet. Attempting to dispel criticisms, Harris first gives the relevant…
Questions for atheists (part 6 of 7)
| July 21, 2011 | Posted by Joseph Keysor under Blog |
66. Richard Dawkins has stated that he considers sexual abuse of children to be “arguably less” damaging than bringing them up to believe in religion (Peter Hitchens, The Rage Against God, p. 202, quoting Dawkins’ book The God Delusion). Now, people who abuse children sexually are subject to criminal penalties, and rightly so. Some questions:…
Sam Harris and A Dangerous Christianity- A Menace Himself
| March 12, 2009 | Posted by admin under Christianity, Excerpts, Sam Harris |
That the self-proclaimed advocates of secular tolerance might themselves be (like some theists) fully capable of killing for their beliefs is exemplified by the popular atheist author Sam Harris. In his book The End of Faith, he states that “Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.” This statement raised so many eyebrows, even among atheists, that Harris felt compelled to give an explanation on the internet.[ Since this attitude is directly related to the crimes of Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, and Mao, it merits some discussion.
Hitler and Eugenics, Dawkins and Boteach, Concepts of God
| February 9, 2009 | Posted by admin under eugenics, Excerpts, Richard Dawkins |
That Hitler valued science is insufficiently appreciated. Some quotes from his Table Talk could easily have been made by such apostles of the New Atheism and enemies of Christianity as Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, or Richard Dawkins. For example, he reportedly stated that people were attracted to religion by fear of the unknown or by intellectual simplicity, but the time would come “when science can answer all the questions.”[ii]
This source has many comments to that effect. Religion would “crumble” before the “advances of science”; science cannot err too much because it is non-dogmatic and self-correcting. Hitler is quoted as saying, “science postulates the search for, and not the certain knowledge of, the truth.” Religious dogma was in conflict with research, and would collapse “under the battering-ram of science.”[iii]
In what became a minor internet controversy, Richard Dawkins compared one Boteach
Book Index
| January 28, 2009 | Posted by admin under |
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Index 9 95 Theses, Martin Luther, 67, 84 A abortion, 41, 138, 176, 203, 379, 391, 392, 394, 449, 450 another holocaust, 451 Adams, John, 239, 240 Adolf Hitler: The Making of a Fuhrer (Who was Responsible?), Walter S. Frank, 235, 324 Age of Reason, The, Thomas Paine, 431 Ahasuerus, 319 Al Qaeda, 442 American…
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