Atheists-Communists in Russia and China, Hitler in Germany rejected God and all religions. What did they create instead? Terror! Over 50 millions got killed in Russia alone. More than 50 millions in China. In Germany along with Jews millions, millions Christians were persecuted and priests murdered. Such was a harvest of unbelief and freedom of all restrictions imposed by religious belief. In comparison to such numbers, few people got killed in the name of all religions taken t
There is a huge difference between inteligence And wisdom. Many times inteligent And educated people are spiritually blind, because Of their arrogance.
God may be seen spiritually, by faith only by humble persons.
Many times people do not like to believe because Of their refusal to live morally, ask yourself, are you honest, ready And willing to live according to God's commandments. If you choose to act your sinful way- You will never find God. God is
I've had it with these motherfucking theists on this motherfucking YouTube constantly insinuating that any motherfucker who doesn't subscribe to their retarded motherfucking religion is an immoral motherfucker who only rejects the notion of their motherfucking God because they just want to be an evil motherfucker when some of us motherfuckers just don't or can't motherfucking believe in the motherfucker yet still manage to live perfectly moral motherfucking lives, motherfucker.
@franciszek8D watch a video on what would happen to america if all the atheists left. dont you think its odd that the educated and wise comprise the vast majority of atheists?
As to your argument of immorality because of atheism, sam does a great job of addressing this in THIS series, in which he states the more advanced and less violent countries are comprised of mostly atheists. reason is merely finally gaining a foothold here and i am thankful.
There is a big difference between humans And animals.
We people think! We have consciousness. Only we live by moral code, which we may neglect because we have free will.
Only we, humans are responsible for our actions or negligence to act properly.
That is why all religions teach that we have immortal souls, spiritual entities able to live after death Of our bodies. Animals are only material bodies, without consciousness And without freedom Of choice.
@franciszek8D animals actually have some distinctly human attributes, like altruism, compassion, fear, depression, anxiety, and homosexuality. There isnt as large a difference as some would like to believe. We may very well have obtained these characteristics from a source other than a book or a god.
If anyone reading this knows Arabic/Persian/Spanish, and has the time to spend to make subtitles (and is able to get the various nuances of Harris' English across), then please consider doing it for some Sam Harris videos. This one is a bit long, but there are shorter (look for "Best of Sam Harris").
Reason vs religion is a _global_ issue, not limited to America. And also people who don't understand English should have access to listen to bright people.
Look at the mirror! Do you think that such mysterious beings as we are can be result Of blind chance? Imposible!
It is sad that we refuse to see the hand Of God, His wonderful designs in creating such
beautiful world.
If you see a computer, do you say that it bacame to exist by itself? By blind chance? or you say that a brilliant mind invented such technology. Our brains are infinitely much more wonderful
@franciszek8D If I see a modern computer, I see something which is slightly different than computers from 1990. And those differ from computers from 1980, etc. I know, it's a flawed analogy (because there are human designers for the computers), but the point is that it's a series of lots of small changes, that "survived". The difference between all the various animals (including humans) is not THAT huge. It's mostly just a few changes between each species. No outside intervention is necessary.
"No one wakes up and goes 'I'm not an Astronomer-- I'm not an Astronomer!'" haha that whole subject of the words "Secularism" and "Atheism" and why they needn't even exist is so brilliant. I never even thought of it that way... Religion itself has just become so strong in America, as he pointed out, that we had to come up with any way to discern ourselves from Theists. It's sad really...
Great video but the problem is you cant fight fantasy with facts.. People believe religion because it gives meaning and purpose to their lives and all the talk and reasons cant take that away.They want to believe good will overcome evil and that there is more to life than this and so they invent God in their own image and likeness. "Convince me against my will and I will believe it still" But the problem is that such thinking is dangerous.
Sam, you are so intelligent. Looking an listening to you I am strengthening my belief that we are not result of the blind chance. On the contrary, we are the masterpiece of the greatest design of our great Designer - God who loves us so much, that He himself became a man- perfect man.
Some Theologians teach that God from all eternity wanted to be also a man after this desire of God comes the rest. He became a man because he wanted to be perfectly united with us. The original sin was only excuse.
That's so fucked up. At what point can someone be considered so brilliant and charismatic that you are in awe of their ability to intelligently challenge your core belief? How THEN is it that you can ignore the content of that brilliance to allow it to be emotional fuel for the fantasy it condemns?!
There has never been a single troll on the internet EVER before that could possibly share such innocent lunacy that is any more mouth-gapingly ignorant than what I'm replying to!
@franciszek8D What kind of logic is this? How exactly are you pretending to persuade anybody to believe your point of view when all your arguments are straw-man arguments? I have been looking at some of your posts from the beginning of Part 1, and I must say that you have absolutely nothing intelligent to write. Can you clarify what exactly is it that you are trying to accomplish?
just this christmas eve, i was at my uncle's house with the fam jam and we were talking about what the differences were from catholics and christians and such and my grandma happened to say, "well we're not athiest, thats all that mattters". and under my breath a said, "speak for yourself". but i didnt want to get into a big convo on how im an athiest. but im sure the time will come when i tell them. probably when i get a tattoo of the evolution chart on my arm
@kiddhitta I don't think "atheist" is a medal we should wear just as there are no adjectives to the lack of belief in anything else. For example: What would you call yourself for not believing in santa claus? "Atheist" is just a social dividing term as the ones used to convey sexual orientation. When the time comes, just begin asking for evidence on people's beliefs or something of the sort.
@eatshitgoogle i know, sam harris says stuff like that in this video. but its just one of those things that because such a large percentage of people do believe, atheist is just a term to identify yourself as a non believer. im sure one day when the majorty of people are non believers, no one wil be called atheist and the minority will be the believers.
anyway... it was so funny ... since this man is presenting his vision between a lot of people who advocate his ideas or have no idea about the religions in general and about Islam in specific ... I am not a schoolar in islam but despite that I can easily defend with regard to Islam in specific and with regard to all of the other religions in general
@abdelraheem1982 You could've just presented your "defense" then. Talk is cheap and nothing he's said about Islam is particularly off, since he has knowledge of the scriptures, not to mention how Islam presents itself to the so called "infidels". If you bothered to watch all 8 parts, you'll see you fit perfectly the islamic lying apologist he was talking about.
@eatshitgoogle firstly, I read all of the book and I watched the 8 parts of the video .... secondly, the book was shallow and based on seperating some islamic texts from its context to cheat the reader, this is not a scietific method of research ... thirdly, if i want to defend I will need to start with talking about islam from the beginning, but the market is full of books which are better than every thing i will say .... thank you very much
@abdelraheem1982 even islamic scholars cannot defend many practices within the religion in any way that could possibly make someone who isn't muslim say, "Yeah, I guess I can understand that.". what makes you think you can? what is so special about you that gives you the ability that nobody else on the planet has? @eatshitgoogle called you out perfectly as the lying islamic apologist. if you can, do it. don't just dodge the question after putting yourself out in front to be asked it.
@a10miletooth .... well, Harris said in his book that Muslims fight the people and force them either to convert to islam or to be killed .... actually, this is not true .... Harris said that Muslims divides the non muslims countries into "house of peace", "house of war", here Harris ,and in purpose, He did not state the third house which is "the house of truce" .... and it is different from the "house of peace" .... Actually, in Islam all of the other countries nowadays are ..... to be continued
@a10miletooth unless they attack an islamic countries, so every country in the world now is a "house of truce" because recognising the other countries is and/or having a diplomatic representing with it is enough to consider it as a "house of peace" or "house of truce" .... "the house of war" is just the country which occuppied some islamic territories .... as a conclusion I can say that Israeal is a "war house" but USA is not ....
@abdelraheem1982 and you honestly think what you just said holds up against any criticisms made towards islamic states in any way shap or form? you didn't address a single thing across two whole paragraphs. why not try starting with what's going on in great britain right now with the muslim population there trying to get sharia law. essentially making it illegal to go against the islamic religion in any forum. or kurdish people living in iraq being murdered for not being muslim. start with that.
@a10miletooth please why dont u start with the history from two centuries ago up to date .... and then check the number of people murdered around the whole world by both of Europe and USA .... about 1.5 millions were killed in Algeria by France and about 4 millions in Iraq ..... man read about all of the Asian countries including india, phillpine, .... etc u will find that all of the violence is driven by the west when they want to pprotect their interests or seize resources in some area
@abdelraheem1982 hahaha, anything that happened in the last 200 years cant be used to account for whats been happening in islamic states sinse the begining of recorded history, buddy. sorry but that doesnt cut it. i thought you said you could easily explain it and here you are dodging yet again. if you cant to it just say so. dont continue to deflect and point fingers everywhere else because you think you need to defend islam for what it is. especially sinse the rest of the world already knows.
@a10miletooth in all of the cases, I told you to continue up to date not just to go in the history .... firstly, Iraq in the days of Saddam wasnt governed by Islamic law .... secondly, Kurdish people are Muslims but u r addicted to point to islam when u hear about anyone killed around the world .... man what is going on in iraq, afghanistan, and palestine is a witness against the west not against islam
@abdelraheem1982 you can't do what you said you could easily do. that's all i'm getting from what you keep saying. i'm completely aware of each thing you've said, don't assume anything towards an ignorance i may or may not have. that's not the topic. are you going to do what you said you could easily do or not? it's a simple question which apparently according to you has an easy answer. you shouldn't make claims to have abilities you do not have and then start pointing fingers when confronted.
@a10miletooth please my freind ... the book was against religions in general and against islam in specific, and by talking about islam, Sam Harris went back into the history .... and when i begin to talk against the book, u directed the argument away from the main topic to ur own topic ... and by the way ur own topic wasnt clear enough .... am sorry u r arguing in the same way as Sam Harris does .... u r just seperating the events from their backgrounds to serve ur case ... this is not a way
@abdelraheem1982 if you've forgotten, it was you who claimed to be able to make an explanation for the defense of islam. i didn't put that on you nor did anyone else. you freely posted that comment on your own so don't try to twist the truth of that matter around in a way that you could yet again avoid answering. i haven't seperated anything in any way in an attempt to serve any purpose whatsoever. you claimed something and got called on it, avoided it, and i called you on that.
@abdelraheem1982 then completely at random you chose your own topic about each "house" within islam. nobody drew away from anything. this is simply another tactic to get away from having to answer the question posed after you yourself made claim to "easily" be able to explain. so can you or can you not? if you can, say "yes" and explain it. if you can not, say "no" and lets be done with it. stop pointing fingers in an attempt to divert attention from something you brought on yourself.
@a10miletooth well, how many people killed around the world by the USA in its last series of wars, and most of them are civilians, the violence around the world nowadays is conducted by the followers of the oil and resources to have a better life conditions on the expense of destroying the life of others, man, yes I claimed to defend and i was able, I think am not going into the history now and i think that what is going on on the lands is enough to point the west as the source of violence
@abdelraheem1982 so your answer is no, just say it. you didnt defend anything nor are you capable. which is why you keep pointing fingers. does the west have a postitve impact everywhere it goes? no of course not. are the most recent ventures into the middle east for anything other than oil and advancing coroprate interests? no. anyone saying otherwise is lying. even so, all of that is NOT the cause for what happens in the middle east as it's been going on long before the west got there.
@a10miletooth man, actually I did not start pointing fingers .... the book of Sam harris started that .... well he claimed that the modern civilization is able to create the equation of pecefull world .... show me that on the land .... man tell me why is it allowed for him to point and it is not allowed for me to point !!!!
@abdelraheem1982 because the majority of modernised people DO live in peace. most modernised secular societies don't have the issues with internal and foreign affairs that countries hosting governments which base their ideologies in religion have. are you purposely trying to lead me to believe you think there aren't any modern secular societies that live in peace? the most peaceful nations on the planet are modern secular societies. did you not know?
A BUDDHIST GOES TO NEW YORK. WHILE HE'S SIGHTSEEING HE STOPS AND ORDERS A HOT-DOG FROM A STREET VENDOR. HE SAYS TO THE VENDOR 'MAKE ME ONE WITH EVERYTHING' ----LOL!!!
THERE'S A SECOND PART TO THIS JOKE;
ONCE THE BUDDHIST GIVES THE VENDOR THE MONEY, HE SAYS TO THE VENDOR "WHERE'S MY CHANGE??
TO WHICH THE VENDOR REPLIES: "CHANGE COMES FROM WITHIN!"
I am a rationlist. As such, I have NO beliefs of any kind. I am certain that because of this, xtians would brand me "an atheist", but I don't consider myself one, just as I don't consider myself a non-astrologer. (Thank you SH) Consequently, when I'm asked if I "believe" or not in god, it's a question that makes no sense to me. I THINK there's no god because NO sound, falsifiable evidence has ever been shown to me. If presented with even a morsel to gnaw on, I might begin to THINK differently.
@cancareless92 Well I enjoy life and I try to learn something new everyday because I find knowledge brings me some measure of contentment, but to be sure there are experiences in the world that could be nicer. For a person who can/care/less, that was kind of you to ask. :) How's YOUR life?
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Original! Another angry Jew telling us we don't have the right to believe in God but rather should be coerced into a humanistic religion that elevates social 'consciousness' to godlike status. Aka the State. Heard of Marx or Engels? Hasn't the 20th century taught us anything? If you're going to write a book against Islam, don't hide it in a larger book against all religion.
"In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross."
V Lenin was partly Jewish,baptized Christian.Stalin went to Christian seminary. Mao, emeror worship. Pol Pot went to catholic scholl.Kim Jung il created areligion"Juche" with himself godhead.Marx was Jewish.
In my view Sam Harris is the only one of the 'Four Horsemen' who has it right. He keeps the debate one of truth vs. falsehood, reason vs. bullshit, whereas Dawkins, Hitchens and Dennett have made it just atheism vs. religion. This opens atheists up to the attack on atheism as a religion, responsible for the actions of all atheists, like Stalin and Mao. I think Dawkins and co. have really tripped up here.
Who, though, can argue against Harris' argument for reason and intellectual honesty?
How do the people who go to caves take a shit ? There's no WC in caves, think if they go deep into the cave to take a shit and get lost, that would be funny. Buddhist lost after taking a shit in cave ! Good one.
thanks for that.....superb!!.......hitchens and dawkins might be ruling the field and i do love their work,but something seems wrong about them.....they seem to completely discard the few genuinly real issues that have come out of our waking up from mass delusion(the ones related to personal experiences of reality that appear to correspond to heightened awareness or religious experience).Those experiences being valid and religion being bullshit dont seem to be as mutually exclusive as they look.
Simply fascinating. This man is not only articulate and civilized in his approach to religious indoctrination, but he's also open-minded enough to admit that sometimes, we just don't know. Thanks so much for posting this lecture.
I have a question, I see that his lectures and videos have less views than Christopher Hitchens ones. Why? they are both brilliant, why do you think he gets less recognition?
He gets less recognition purely because he's been soft on those religion fascist bastards, who we don't say sorry to, its bullshit, you tell them how it is, "FUCK YOU, you don't like it, leave the room." Its simpel, its the way Hitchens and Dawkin goes on to do their business. Religion is bullshit, and the fact that the US still remains its religion point of view as "plausible", its just ridiculous. Nobody has learned shit after 9/11, its unbelieble, or some still thinks Jesus will save them....
I believe that the ratio of atheist inmates in the US is roughly one or two percent while atheists make up roughly ten percent(according to some recent surveys) of the US population. Meanwhile some seventy five percent of inmates in the US state that they believe in god or are christian while christians make up some seventy percent of the US population.
I could be wrong on the numbers, it's been a few months since I looked them up.
That's a good estimate. Most violent people are religious. They say I ROLL WITH GOD and have tattoos of angels. Anyway we know that western people love adult movies. The porn industry rakes in more money in a year than all pro sports combined. If only gentle Jesus were here to see what his chiristians are watching and doing. All religious people share 2 things. They are all fools and hippocrates. religionfactreport(dotcom)
"I wonder why he keeps bashing muslims when he lives in a country that's extremely fanatical DESPITE having the resources to educate its children properly! He's trying to avoid offending Americans or is he trying to make money off of people's hatred for muslims, I wonder?"
He is not bashing muslims, he is bashing islam the religion.
god doesn't exist and how silly to think such a thing.
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I wonder why he keeps bashing muslims when he lives in a country that's extremely fanatical DESPITE having the resources to educate its children properly! He's trying to avoid offending Americans or is he trying to make money off of people's hatred for muslims, I wonder?
But calling the christian god "God" is like calling Dan Marino "Quarterback"; the word is a descriptor, not a proper noun, really. As I understand it, the christian god has a couple of different names, from "Yahweh" to "Jehova" or whatever...so it makes sense NOT to capitalize "god", ultimately.
To Denchanter357
Atheists-Communists in Russia and China, Hitler in Germany rejected God and all religions. What did they create instead? Terror! Over 50 millions got killed in Russia alone. More than 50 millions in China. In Germany along with Jews millions, millions Christians were persecuted and priests murdered. Such was a harvest of unbelief and freedom of all restrictions imposed by religious belief. In comparison to such numbers, few people got killed in the name of all religions taken t
franciszek8D 2 weeks ago
BTW, thank you for uploading this speech and Q&A. Brilliant stuff, much appreciated. :)
GjVj 5 months ago in playlist Sam Harris - The End of Faith
Sam Harris is an inteligent man however,
There is a huge difference between inteligence And wisdom. Many times inteligent And educated people are spiritually blind, because Of their arrogance.
God may be seen spiritually, by faith only by humble persons.
Many times people do not like to believe because Of their refusal to live morally, ask yourself, are you honest, ready And willing to live according to God's commandments. If you choose to act your sinful way- You will never find God. God is
franciszek8D 6 months ago
@franciszek8D
I've had it with these motherfucking theists on this motherfucking YouTube constantly insinuating that any motherfucker who doesn't subscribe to their retarded motherfucking religion is an immoral motherfucker who only rejects the notion of their motherfucking God because they just want to be an evil motherfucker when some of us motherfuckers just don't or can't motherfucking believe in the motherfucker yet still manage to live perfectly moral motherfucking lives, motherfucker.
GjVj 5 months ago in playlist Sam Harris - The End of Faith
@franciszek8D watch a video on what would happen to america if all the atheists left. dont you think its odd that the educated and wise comprise the vast majority of atheists?
As to your argument of immorality because of atheism, sam does a great job of addressing this in THIS series, in which he states the more advanced and less violent countries are comprised of mostly atheists. reason is merely finally gaining a foothold here and i am thankful.
Denchanter357 2 weeks ago
There is a big difference between humans And animals.
We people think! We have consciousness. Only we live by moral code, which we may neglect because we have free will.
Only we, humans are responsible for our actions or negligence to act properly.
That is why all religions teach that we have immortal souls, spiritual entities able to live after death Of our bodies. Animals are only material bodies, without consciousness And without freedom Of choice.
franciszek8D 6 months ago
@franciszek8D animals actually have some distinctly human attributes, like altruism, compassion, fear, depression, anxiety, and homosexuality. There isnt as large a difference as some would like to believe. We may very well have obtained these characteristics from a source other than a book or a god.
Denchanter357 2 weeks ago
To the uploader: thanks for posting this.
If anyone reading this knows Arabic/Persian/Spanish, and has the time to spend to make subtitles (and is able to get the various nuances of Harris' English across), then please consider doing it for some Sam Harris videos. This one is a bit long, but there are shorter (look for "Best of Sam Harris").
Reason vs religion is a _global_ issue, not limited to America. And also people who don't understand English should have access to listen to bright people.
0debug 6 months ago
Emaniac69
Look at the mirror! Do you think that such mysterious beings as we are can be result Of blind chance? Imposible!
It is sad that we refuse to see the hand Of God, His wonderful designs in creating such
beautiful world.
If you see a computer, do you say that it bacame to exist by itself? By blind chance? or you say that a brilliant mind invented such technology. Our brains are infinitely much more wonderful
franciszek8D 6 months ago
@franciszek8D If I see a modern computer, I see something which is slightly different than computers from 1990. And those differ from computers from 1980, etc. I know, it's a flawed analogy (because there are human designers for the computers), but the point is that it's a series of lots of small changes, that "survived". The difference between all the various animals (including humans) is not THAT huge. It's mostly just a few changes between each species. No outside intervention is necessary.
0debug 6 months ago
"No one wakes up and goes 'I'm not an Astronomer-- I'm not an Astronomer!'" haha that whole subject of the words "Secularism" and "Atheism" and why they needn't even exist is so brilliant. I never even thought of it that way... Religion itself has just become so strong in America, as he pointed out, that we had to come up with any way to discern ourselves from Theists. It's sad really...
EveaGornall 7 months ago 2
Great talk...really wonderfully insightful !
But for some reason i dont like the old woman who smiles at the most profoundly deep and serious questions asked...
alphakristjan 9 months ago
Great video but the problem is you cant fight fantasy with facts.. People believe religion because it gives meaning and purpose to their lives and all the talk and reasons cant take that away.They want to believe good will overcome evil and that there is more to life than this and so they invent God in their own image and likeness. "Convince me against my will and I will believe it still" But the problem is that such thinking is dangerous.
Realityseekerman 1 year ago
Sam, you are so intelligent. Looking an listening to you I am strengthening my belief that we are not result of the blind chance. On the contrary, we are the masterpiece of the greatest design of our great Designer - God who loves us so much, that He himself became a man- perfect man.
Some Theologians teach that God from all eternity wanted to be also a man after this desire of God comes the rest. He became a man because he wanted to be perfectly united with us. The original sin was only excuse.
franciszek8D 1 year ago
@franciszek8D this is interesting.. the man is so smart you dont believe him??!
Realityseekerman 1 year ago
@franciszek8D
That's so fucked up. At what point can someone be considered so brilliant and charismatic that you are in awe of their ability to intelligently challenge your core belief? How THEN is it that you can ignore the content of that brilliance to allow it to be emotional fuel for the fantasy it condemns?!
There has never been a single troll on the internet EVER before that could possibly share such innocent lunacy that is any more mouth-gapingly ignorant than what I'm replying to!
drawnsequence 10 months ago 4
@franciszek8D What kind of logic is this? How exactly are you pretending to persuade anybody to believe your point of view when all your arguments are straw-man arguments? I have been looking at some of your posts from the beginning of Part 1, and I must say that you have absolutely nothing intelligent to write. Can you clarify what exactly is it that you are trying to accomplish?
Emaniac69 6 months ago 2
I'm sorry, but the moderator should have done a much better job at screening some of these questions, like the one at 4:35
writersblock26 1 year ago
change the world slowly mr sam , u r doing a great service , love ur work , love dawkins , hitchins too
wish u long life
loly1969 1 year ago
just this christmas eve, i was at my uncle's house with the fam jam and we were talking about what the differences were from catholics and christians and such and my grandma happened to say, "well we're not athiest, thats all that mattters". and under my breath a said, "speak for yourself". but i didnt want to get into a big convo on how im an athiest. but im sure the time will come when i tell them. probably when i get a tattoo of the evolution chart on my arm
kiddhitta 1 year ago
@kiddhitta I don't think "atheist" is a medal we should wear just as there are no adjectives to the lack of belief in anything else. For example: What would you call yourself for not believing in santa claus? "Atheist" is just a social dividing term as the ones used to convey sexual orientation. When the time comes, just begin asking for evidence on people's beliefs or something of the sort.
eatshitgoogle 1 year ago
@eatshitgoogle i know, sam harris says stuff like that in this video. but its just one of those things that because such a large percentage of people do believe, atheist is just a term to identify yourself as a non believer. im sure one day when the majorty of people are non believers, no one wil be called atheist and the minority will be the believers.
kiddhitta 1 year ago
anyway... it was so funny ... since this man is presenting his vision between a lot of people who advocate his ideas or have no idea about the religions in general and about Islam in specific ... I am not a schoolar in islam but despite that I can easily defend with regard to Islam in specific and with regard to all of the other religions in general
abdelraheem1982 1 year ago
@abdelraheem1982 You could've just presented your "defense" then. Talk is cheap and nothing he's said about Islam is particularly off, since he has knowledge of the scriptures, not to mention how Islam presents itself to the so called "infidels". If you bothered to watch all 8 parts, you'll see you fit perfectly the islamic lying apologist he was talking about.
eatshitgoogle 1 year ago
@eatshitgoogle firstly, I read all of the book and I watched the 8 parts of the video .... secondly, the book was shallow and based on seperating some islamic texts from its context to cheat the reader, this is not a scietific method of research ... thirdly, if i want to defend I will need to start with talking about islam from the beginning, but the market is full of books which are better than every thing i will say .... thank you very much
abdelraheem1982 1 year ago
@abdelraheem1982 even islamic scholars cannot defend many practices within the religion in any way that could possibly make someone who isn't muslim say, "Yeah, I guess I can understand that.". what makes you think you can? what is so special about you that gives you the ability that nobody else on the planet has? @eatshitgoogle called you out perfectly as the lying islamic apologist. if you can, do it. don't just dodge the question after putting yourself out in front to be asked it.
a10miletooth 1 year ago
@a10miletooth .... well, Harris said in his book that Muslims fight the people and force them either to convert to islam or to be killed .... actually, this is not true .... Harris said that Muslims divides the non muslims countries into "house of peace", "house of war", here Harris ,and in purpose, He did not state the third house which is "the house of truce" .... and it is different from the "house of peace" .... Actually, in Islam all of the other countries nowadays are ..... to be continued
abdelraheem1982 1 year ago
@a10miletooth unless they attack an islamic countries, so every country in the world now is a "house of truce" because recognising the other countries is and/or having a diplomatic representing with it is enough to consider it as a "house of peace" or "house of truce" .... "the house of war" is just the country which occuppied some islamic territories .... as a conclusion I can say that Israeal is a "war house" but USA is not ....
abdelraheem1982 1 year ago
@abdelraheem1982 and you honestly think what you just said holds up against any criticisms made towards islamic states in any way shap or form? you didn't address a single thing across two whole paragraphs. why not try starting with what's going on in great britain right now with the muslim population there trying to get sharia law. essentially making it illegal to go against the islamic religion in any forum. or kurdish people living in iraq being murdered for not being muslim. start with that.
a10miletooth 1 year ago
@a10miletooth please why dont u start with the history from two centuries ago up to date .... and then check the number of people murdered around the whole world by both of Europe and USA .... about 1.5 millions were killed in Algeria by France and about 4 millions in Iraq ..... man read about all of the Asian countries including india, phillpine, .... etc u will find that all of the violence is driven by the west when they want to pprotect their interests or seize resources in some area
abdelraheem1982 1 year ago
@abdelraheem1982 hahaha, anything that happened in the last 200 years cant be used to account for whats been happening in islamic states sinse the begining of recorded history, buddy. sorry but that doesnt cut it. i thought you said you could easily explain it and here you are dodging yet again. if you cant to it just say so. dont continue to deflect and point fingers everywhere else because you think you need to defend islam for what it is. especially sinse the rest of the world already knows.
a10miletooth 1 year ago
@a10miletooth in all of the cases, I told you to continue up to date not just to go in the history .... firstly, Iraq in the days of Saddam wasnt governed by Islamic law .... secondly, Kurdish people are Muslims but u r addicted to point to islam when u hear about anyone killed around the world .... man what is going on in iraq, afghanistan, and palestine is a witness against the west not against islam
abdelraheem1982 1 year ago
@abdelraheem1982 you can't do what you said you could easily do. that's all i'm getting from what you keep saying. i'm completely aware of each thing you've said, don't assume anything towards an ignorance i may or may not have. that's not the topic. are you going to do what you said you could easily do or not? it's a simple question which apparently according to you has an easy answer. you shouldn't make claims to have abilities you do not have and then start pointing fingers when confronted.
a10miletooth 1 year ago
@a10miletooth please my freind ... the book was against religions in general and against islam in specific, and by talking about islam, Sam Harris went back into the history .... and when i begin to talk against the book, u directed the argument away from the main topic to ur own topic ... and by the way ur own topic wasnt clear enough .... am sorry u r arguing in the same way as Sam Harris does .... u r just seperating the events from their backgrounds to serve ur case ... this is not a way
abdelraheem1982 1 year ago
@abdelraheem1982 if you've forgotten, it was you who claimed to be able to make an explanation for the defense of islam. i didn't put that on you nor did anyone else. you freely posted that comment on your own so don't try to twist the truth of that matter around in a way that you could yet again avoid answering. i haven't seperated anything in any way in an attempt to serve any purpose whatsoever. you claimed something and got called on it, avoided it, and i called you on that.
a10miletooth 1 year ago
@abdelraheem1982 then completely at random you chose your own topic about each "house" within islam. nobody drew away from anything. this is simply another tactic to get away from having to answer the question posed after you yourself made claim to "easily" be able to explain. so can you or can you not? if you can, say "yes" and explain it. if you can not, say "no" and lets be done with it. stop pointing fingers in an attempt to divert attention from something you brought on yourself.
a10miletooth 1 year ago
@a10miletooth well, how many people killed around the world by the USA in its last series of wars, and most of them are civilians, the violence around the world nowadays is conducted by the followers of the oil and resources to have a better life conditions on the expense of destroying the life of others, man, yes I claimed to defend and i was able, I think am not going into the history now and i think that what is going on on the lands is enough to point the west as the source of violence
abdelraheem1982 1 year ago
@abdelraheem1982 so your answer is no, just say it. you didnt defend anything nor are you capable. which is why you keep pointing fingers. does the west have a postitve impact everywhere it goes? no of course not. are the most recent ventures into the middle east for anything other than oil and advancing coroprate interests? no. anyone saying otherwise is lying. even so, all of that is NOT the cause for what happens in the middle east as it's been going on long before the west got there.
a10miletooth 1 year ago
@a10miletooth man, actually I did not start pointing fingers .... the book of Sam harris started that .... well he claimed that the modern civilization is able to create the equation of pecefull world .... show me that on the land .... man tell me why is it allowed for him to point and it is not allowed for me to point !!!!
abdelraheem1982 1 year ago
@abdelraheem1982 because the majority of modernised people DO live in peace. most modernised secular societies don't have the issues with internal and foreign affairs that countries hosting governments which base their ideologies in religion have. are you purposely trying to lead me to believe you think there aren't any modern secular societies that live in peace? the most peaceful nations on the planet are modern secular societies. did you not know?
a10miletooth 1 year ago
>"colbert reporT"
wat
migduh 1 year ago
A BUDDHIST GOES TO NEW YORK. WHILE HE'S SIGHTSEEING HE STOPS AND ORDERS A HOT-DOG FROM A STREET VENDOR. HE SAYS TO THE VENDOR 'MAKE ME ONE WITH EVERYTHING' ----LOL!!!
THERE'S A SECOND PART TO THIS JOKE;
ONCE THE BUDDHIST GIVES THE VENDOR THE MONEY, HE SAYS TO THE VENDOR "WHERE'S MY CHANGE??
TO WHICH THE VENDOR REPLIES: "CHANGE COMES FROM WITHIN!"
sylviabombs15 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this series.
Mr. Harris is brilliant.
13UnderTheGun 1 year ago 3
I am a rationlist. As such, I have NO beliefs of any kind. I am certain that because of this, xtians would brand me "an atheist", but I don't consider myself one, just as I don't consider myself a non-astrologer. (Thank you SH) Consequently, when I'm asked if I "believe" or not in god, it's a question that makes no sense to me. I THINK there's no god because NO sound, falsifiable evidence has ever been shown to me. If presented with even a morsel to gnaw on, I might begin to THINK differently.
wonkothemagicelf 1 year ago 3
@wonkothemagicelf Hows your life?
cancareless92 1 year ago
@cancareless92 Well I enjoy life and I try to learn something new everyday because I find knowledge brings me some measure of contentment, but to be sure there are experiences in the world that could be nicer. For a person who can/care/less, that was kind of you to ask. :) How's YOUR life?
wonkothemagicelf 1 year ago
@wonkothemagicelf That great. well im breathing, got health, and still all my love ones i cant complain. Thank GOD.
cancareless92 1 year ago
@cancareless92 you should ask god for some literary skills.
migduh 1 year ago
@migduh Well it's up to me if i want to attend school or not, God has nothing to do with My literacy. And this comment is 2 months old... Get a Life.
cancareless92 1 year ago
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Original! Another angry Jew telling us we don't have the right to believe in God but rather should be coerced into a humanistic religion that elevates social 'consciousness' to godlike status. Aka the State. Heard of Marx or Engels? Hasn't the 20th century taught us anything? If you're going to write a book against Islam, don't hide it in a larger book against all religion.
adismo22 1 year ago
Off topic but Susan Jacoby looks like a grown up version of Dot from Madtv.
kellys2deryck 1 year ago
"In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross."
Adolf Hitler
qaplatlhinganmaH 2 years ago 8
V Lenin was partly Jewish,baptized Christian.Stalin went to Christian seminary. Mao, emeror worship. Pol Pot went to catholic scholl.Kim Jung il created areligion"Juche" with himself godhead.Marx was Jewish.
qaplatlhinganmaH 2 years ago 2
In my view Sam Harris is the only one of the 'Four Horsemen' who has it right. He keeps the debate one of truth vs. falsehood, reason vs. bullshit, whereas Dawkins, Hitchens and Dennett have made it just atheism vs. religion. This opens atheists up to the attack on atheism as a religion, responsible for the actions of all atheists, like Stalin and Mao. I think Dawkins and co. have really tripped up here.
Who, though, can argue against Harris' argument for reason and intellectual honesty?
sam51092 2 years ago 8
I know you wrote this 2 months ago but I agree completely.
cubbyguy1 2 years ago
Well after 2 months I still agree with me too, so thank you!
sam51092 2 years ago
And 10 months later, I still want to eat your babies.
revkins 2 years ago
How do the people who go to caves take a shit ? There's no WC in caves, think if they go deep into the cave to take a shit and get lost, that would be funny. Buddhist lost after taking a shit in cave ! Good one.
Ryuuken24 2 years ago
thanks for that.....superb!!.......hitchens and dawkins might be ruling the field and i do love their work,but something seems wrong about them.....they seem to completely discard the few genuinly real issues that have come out of our waking up from mass delusion(the ones related to personal experiences of reality that appear to correspond to heightened awareness or religious experience).Those experiences being valid and religion being bullshit dont seem to be as mutually exclusive as they look.
MobiusRoom 2 years ago
Simply fascinating. This man is not only articulate and civilized in his approach to religious indoctrination, but he's also open-minded enough to admit that sometimes, we just don't know. Thanks so much for posting this lecture.
nikkist68 3 years ago 37
I'd argue that being open minded and willing to admit when he is wrong or that we just don't know is a strong component of why he is the way he is.
kaizenrei 2 years ago 3
I think Sam Harris is just brilliant and awesome.
I have a question, I see that his lectures and videos have less views than Christopher Hitchens ones. Why? they are both brilliant, why do you think he gets less recognition?
discoverngc 2 years ago
He gets less recognition purely because he's been soft on those religion fascist bastards, who we don't say sorry to, its bullshit, you tell them how it is, "FUCK YOU, you don't like it, leave the room." Its simpel, its the way Hitchens and Dawkin goes on to do their business. Religion is bullshit, and the fact that the US still remains its religion point of view as "plausible", its just ridiculous. Nobody has learned shit after 9/11, its unbelieble, or some still thinks Jesus will save them....
Ryuuken24 2 years ago
@nikkist68
i bet he is getting death threats anyway.
dustdust7 1 year ago
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if you have doubt most human killer r athist
check most neocon r athist
most facist racist zionist r athist
most reasoninig human killer communist r atheist
most humanity lover r spritual religious
most anti war anti opressor struggalist r spritual religious
most charitible person r religious
most compassionate gudince of life is buddist and islamic
he hiding action and magnafying human reaction with hatefull religious bland
thats why i say him educated eveil
SyeedPeace 3 years ago
This is just a bunch of desperate, false and inconsistent claims. Stop the spamming from video to video or you'll get reported.
untroubled 3 years ago 4
Bull shit, - 76% of all murderers doing time in the states believe in god.
The proportion of Atheists doing time for murder is miniscule compared to all other convicts.
Do your research before commenting. Do your research before adopting a moronic set of beliefs too.
hoadmaback 2 years ago 3
I believe that the ratio of atheist inmates in the US is roughly one or two percent while atheists make up roughly ten percent(according to some recent surveys) of the US population. Meanwhile some seventy five percent of inmates in the US state that they believe in god or are christian while christians make up some seventy percent of the US population.
I could be wrong on the numbers, it's been a few months since I looked them up.
Tavereen 2 years ago 8
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Wow, I'm convinced. Not.
oran6es 2 years ago
I was just stating the numbers, and the numbers indicate that atheists are far from immoral people.
Tavereen 2 years ago 6
Live and let live. I'm okay, you're okay.
For the record, if you want numbers, there are far more moral believers than immoral believers and moral atheists combined.
oran6es 2 years ago
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.......and good Christians outnumber bad Christians about 100 to 1.
oran6es 2 years ago
Ah, I sense a No True Scotsman fallacy coming on.
Tavereen 2 years ago
That's a good estimate. Most violent people are religious. They say I ROLL WITH GOD and have tattoos of angels. Anyway we know that western people love adult movies. The porn industry rakes in more money in a year than all pro sports combined. If only gentle Jesus were here to see what his chiristians are watching and doing. All religious people share 2 things. They are all fools and hippocrates. religionfactreport(dotcom)
kansaimagic 2 years ago
It's a pleasure to hear a beautiful mind speaking. Thank you for uploading.
Dorfkanal 3 years ago 4
"I wonder why he keeps bashing muslims when he lives in a country that's extremely fanatical DESPITE having the resources to educate its children properly! He's trying to avoid offending Americans or is he trying to make money off of people's hatred for muslims, I wonder?"
He is not bashing muslims, he is bashing islam the religion.
god doesn't exist and how silly to think such a thing.
btiggy420 3 years ago 12
Is humanity (as a whole) progressing against the fallacy of religion in your opinion? And will religion eventually come to an end altogether?
vidsofgargator 3 years ago
Many thanks for posting this lecture
Syd1940 3 years ago 3
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I wonder why he keeps bashing muslims when he lives in a country that's extremely fanatical DESPITE having the resources to educate its children properly! He's trying to avoid offending Americans or is he trying to make money off of people's hatred for muslims, I wonder?
Sorenzo 3 years ago
Many thanks
Guedingen 3 years ago 2
He's so articulate -- I want to fuck Sam Harris's brain!
johnclavis 3 years ago 4
"Why did you capitalize "God" in your book?"
Even fictional characters get their names capitalized.
AnunC8 3 years ago 6
But calling the christian god "God" is like calling Dan Marino "Quarterback"; the word is a descriptor, not a proper noun, really. As I understand it, the christian god has a couple of different names, from "Yahweh" to "Jehova" or whatever...so it makes sense NOT to capitalize "god", ultimately.
BionicDance 3 years ago 4
yeah, thanks for putting this up!
TheEyesOfNye 4 years ago 9
Thanks! ...this was great!
notbendable 4 years ago 9
We all believe in things which embarass us in hindsight.
Brilliant.
maeon3 4 years ago 47