{"id":3102,"date":"2011-09-21T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/09\/sam-harris-makes-me-chuckle.html"},"modified":"2011-09-21T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T13:53:00","slug":"sam-harris-makes-me-chuckle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/09\/sam-harris-makes-me-chuckle.html","title":{"rendered":"Sam Harris makes me chuckle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Like many post-moderns, Mr. Harris saw in the 10th anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks a chance to advance his ideological dogmas.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the whole piece<\/a> if you can\u2019t find any other comedy routines to enjoy.<\/p>\n

Here is the part I liked.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhatever else may be wrong with our world, it remains a fact that some of the most terrifying instances of human conflict and stupidity would be unthinkable without religion. And the other ideologies that inspire people to behave like monsters\u2014Stalinism, fascism, etc.\u2014are dangerous precisely because they so resemble <\/i>religions<\/b>. Sacrifice for the Dear Leader, however secular, is an act of cultic conformity and worship. Whenever human obsession is channeled in these ways, we can see the ancient framework upon which every religion was built. In our ignorance, fear, and craving for order, we created the gods. And ignorance, fear, and craving keep them with us.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Look at that again.\u00a0 Notice the bold print.\u00a0 In other words, in a way reminiscent of Christopher Hitchens and other Atheist zealots, he has said that religion is the cause of evil in the world.\u00a0 And more to the point, evil that isn\u2019t the result of religion looks an awful lot like they were treating things like religion when they did their evil, so that goes to show you religion is the cause of evil in the world!<\/div>\n
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I know,\u00a0most thinking people would laugh their gourds off at logic like that.\u00a0 Religion is evil because all the evidence proves it, and evidence that doesn\u2019t support it doesn\u2019t count since we\u2019ve already concluded religion is evil.\u00a0 Uh huh.\u00a0 If Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin or Pat Robertson said something like this about any other topic, folks would blow beer out their noses in laughter.\u00a0 It\u2019s a testimony to the fact that both our modern journalism and higher educational institutions are in such a mess that he isn\u2019t whipped off the stage with chords of contempt and derision. <\/div>\n
Instead, he\u2019s a darling of the Atheistic zealotry movement that has found its niche since 9\/11.\u00a0 Cheered on by the media, embraced by academia, and generally seen as a god-king for informing us that his dogma regarding the evil of dogmas is eternally true, and that we must eliminate all the religious traditions he hates, Harris continues to demonstrate that compared to a 21st century Western pundit, your average peasant in the Middle Ages is beginning to look pretty darn smart. <\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like many post-moderns, Mr. Harris saw in the 10th anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks a chance to advance his ideological dogmas.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the whole piece if you can\u2019t find any other comedy routines to enjoy. 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