5/24/2023 0 Comments The end of faith in sam harris![]() ![]() It's a bold and oddly exhilarating thesis, and for the first 50 pages Harris runs with it. "Words like 'God' or 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal', or they will unmake our world." So Harris argues, "Given the power of our technologyÉ we have simply lost the right to our myths and to our mythic identities." So now is the time for to dismantle the religious idea that human action can be justified with reference to afterlives, mystical realms and magical Gods - before those ideas are turned once again on humanity. If this technology combines with a religious group that believes death is actually better than life - whether it is the evangelical Christians who pine for the Rapture or jihadists who brag about how much they love death - then it is, at the very least, hard to see a happy outcome. Before long, technological advances will make weaponry of mass destruction fairly easily available to any group of private individuals. He argues that there has never been a more important time for a campaigning, aggressive atheism - for a simple reason. He launches a sustained nuclear assault on it. ![]() Sam Harris - a Californian neuroscientist - does not just attack this taboo. ![]()
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