Sam Harris Talks about the Defence of Religion

[_Some Schmo]

What part of England are you from, blockhead? (Incidentally, dimbulb is correct when used as a means of address, as is blockhead.)

Sheffield, moron. Any more questions?

LOL... nothing better than a religious dipstick who thinks he's smart. Go pray to your fantasy sky daddy for forgiveness for being so presumptuous and stupid. Might make you feel better.

[_Some Schmo]

I wouldn't say Harris is into new age woo so much as he is overly friendly to it's potential reasonableness in comparison to how he treats other religious beliefs. He blurs the line there, but if you read carefully he's usually not saying he thinks what he's defending so much as he thinks it could be reasonably defended and pursued. But yeah, definitely not one of our great thinkers. As Lindsay Beyernstein once got at, he's annoying annoyingly famous, probably in significant part because he represents much of society's bigoted preconceptions about atheists: that they're dogmatic, intolerant, secretly religious, and amoral.

That's a little sad, coming from you.

[_Brackite]

Did you get beat over the head with a lead pipe while you were in the Mormon gulag? In any event, Harris has a penchant for levitation, reincarnation, trips to the astral plane, and other elements of Eastern Mysticism.

Sam Harris's Faith in Eastern Spirituality and Muslim Torture

Hello,

Didn't the Apostle Paul have an out of body experience and had a trip to the astral plane? Here is 2 Corinthians Chapter 12, Verses two through four:

2 Corinthians 12:2-4: (New King James Version):

2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven. 3 And I know such a man—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— 4 how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

Reincarnation though is definitely Not Biblical. Here is Hebrews Chapter Nine, Verses 27 and 28:

Hebrews 9:27-28: (New King James Version):

27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

[_GoodK]

Brackite,

You should really go smash your forehead into a brick wall.


Not to be rude or anything, I'm just saying that communicating with the aptly named Calculus Crusader will be much, much more painful and far less productive.

[_TAK]

Like I said, Mormonism can't even get off the ground.

Nothing is quite so funny as the guy living in the double wide trailer making fun of the neighbor in the single wide..

[_Calculus Crusader]

The thing is, Godel's ontological argument is valid, but not sound -- it's not clear why existence should be a positive attribute.

You came up with that in the hours since you looked it up on wikipedia? Wow!

[_Calculus Crusader]

Like I said, Mormonism can't even get off the ground.

Nothing is quite so funny as the guy living in the double wide trailer making fun of the neighbor in the single wide..

I'm not interested in the goings on in your neighborhood, hayseed.

[Guest]

Okay, now I have time to dismantle your stupidity in more detail.

This is probably my favorite characterization of Christianity:

"Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie....

Neither the original conception nor the popular conception of zombies applies to the resurrection of Jesus Christ, dimbulb.

who was his own father

Not even trinitarians believe this, stupid.

can make you live forever if you literally eat his flesh

This criticism only applies to those denominations who believe in transubstantiation or metousiosis.

and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree..."

This is what Calculus Crusader believes, folks.

Did you get this from George Carlin or another worthless pos?

[_Calculus Crusader]

What part of England are you from, blockhead? (Incidentally, dimbulb is correct when used as a means of address, as is blockhead.)

Sheffield, moron. Any more questions?

Cretins like you make me think that the old blood is all but spent in Britain, leaving only Anglo-Saxon dross.

LOL... nothing better than a religious dipstick who thinks he's smart. Go pray to your fantasy sky daddy for forgiveness for being so presumptuous and stupid. Might make you feel better.

I don't think I'm smart; I know I am, Limey.

[_GoodK]

Like I said, Mormonism can't even get off the ground.

Nothing is quite so funny as the guy living in the double wide trailer making fun of the neighbor in the single wide..