Religion, Terror, and Self-Transcendence
Sam Harris, in a more comprehensive version of a speech I’ve previously seen. It’s also more tightly integrated in terms of the philosophical (epistemological) status of reason and the utter bankruptcy of faith, in the religious sense of the word, which I’m happy to differentiate from the common use of what can simply pass for confidence.
Give it a look. For those perplexed by my recent inquiry into Eastern religious traditions, educating myself as to things of which I have not previously been aware, part 3 gives a very able summary concerning the basis of my interest.
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