Monday, June 17, 2013
This is all very nice …
… but what exactly are we supposed to do about the people who go around decapitating other people, claiming they do so for religious reasons: This View of Life: Here He Goes Again: Sam Harris’s Falsehoods. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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"Does Anyone Really Believe in the Muslim Paradise?":
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There are a number of things you can do to thwart such people, which I have outlined in Congssional testimony and elsewhere, but arguing that reason rebuts religion won't do it.
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I agree with Scott that the reason vs. religion argument is pretty much a waste of time, but not, as Scott seems to suggest, because religion is absurd, unless we are using "absurd" in its existentialist sense. I also don't think it is no more unlikely that someone can believe in 72 virgins in Paradise than it is for people to believe the Earth was made in six days 5,000 years ago. Reason has its limits, and myths is one of them
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