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Old 04-24-2015, 11:04 PM   #280 (permalink)
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i think he singles it out as by far the number one threat being posed by religious thinking right now. and i think he is 100% right in doing so.
It's not just the threat he attacks, but the basic tenets of the religion itself. Whether or not you can argue that one Judeo-Christian religion is worse than the others, Sam Harris' conviction that Islam is the greater abomination just comes across prejudiced to me.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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