/lit/ - Literature

>>11067374
>misrepresenting
Did someone mention my favourite topic?

>>6471270
yup

The problem with Chomsky is that he doesn't factor in intent. To him the Israel government and Hama's are the same. You have to ask yourself what Israel would do with the land, they'd bring liberal democracy. Now what would Hamas do? They'd exterminate Jews, set up brutal Islamic dictatorships etc.

Sam Harris

http://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1428897822566.webm
http://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1428900213200.webm
http://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1428900687341.webm

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http://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1428942631139.webm

Does /lit/ like Sam Harris?

http://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1428897822566.webm
http://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1428900213200.webm
http://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1428900687341.webm

>Atheism is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist."

>We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle.

>Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

Do you agree?

>Atheism is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist."

>We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle.

>Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

Do you agree?

>Atheism is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist."

>We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle.

>Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

Has Sam Harris ever been wrong?

Why is he always right?

>Unreason is now ascendant in the United States-in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.

>It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by the accommodations they have made to religious irrationality.

>The dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists. To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization.

>Let’s just grant the possibility that there is a Creator God, who’s omniscient, who occasionally authors books. And he’s gonna give us a book–the most useful book. He’s a loving God, he’s a compassionate God, and he’s gonna give us a guide to life. He’s got a scribe, the scribe’s gonna write it down.What’s gonna be in that book?I mean just think of how good a book would be if it were authored by an omniscient deity.I mean, there is not a single line in the Bible or the Koran that could not have been authored by a first century person. There is not one reference to anything–there are pages and pages about how to sacrifice animals, and keep slaves, and who to kill and why.There’s nothing about electricity, there’s nothing about DNA, there’s nothing about infectious disease, the principles of infectious disease.There’s nothing particularly useful, and there’s a lot of iron age barbarism in there, and superstition.This is not a candidate book.

Who are some other philosophers like Sam Harris?

Has Sam Harris written any good books?

I've listened to him speak and he seems really smart.

Remember when Sam Harris asked for this?

>Anyone who believes that my case for a scientific understanding of morality is mistaken is invited to prove it in under 1,000 words.

He chose a "winning essay" and yesterday he published his refutation of it: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/clarifying-the-landscape

Looks like they chose the weakest essay possible so he could repeat his shitty arguments.