Sam Harris on Bill Maher’s Real Time
Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation was on Bill Maher’s Real Time (HBO) this past friday. One of the key points in this interview for me was that Atheism is not a belief system, it is a rejection of religious and other dogma. I get accused of being as ‘religious’ as other believers, just about Atheism instead of organized religion. I usually explain instead that ‘I don’t know’ how we got here, but they think they do.
The other point is how destructive and insidious religion can be. I’d love to let everyone ‘live and let live’, however large organized religious groups are pushing their agendas, such as creationism in schools, rejection of using embyronic stem cells, spreading of sharia law, anti-gay support and so on. While many people are average church going folk, their support enables the large organized factions to mobilize.
You can get The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation at Amazon.
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