Science Club - Conversational Intolerance

This track includes samples from a public domain recording of a speech given by Sam Harris at the Aspen Ideas Festival in 2007.

If you are interested in atheism, religion, or life in general, please feel free to consult the following links for more information:

http://www.samharris.org

http://www.richarddawkins.net

http://www.ted.com

http://www.crank.net

http://www.nasa.gov

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• atheism
• biology
• christianity
• evolution
• house
• intelligent
• design
• islam
• religion
• richard
• dawkins
• sam
• harris
• science
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[SublordUtilax123]

sorry, you aren't very musical at all, this is shit music. great message though.

[ScienceClubX]

@SublordUtilax123 Well, it would be a boring world if we all liked the same things. I try not to be a dick about it though. Backhanded compliment accepted.

[drandersw]

Religion is the biggest threat we are facing inside ourselves. We would be infinitely better off without this mental disease.

[DaveGrossmanSoloBass]

Nice!

[voncello]

@YodanboogerLives There's nothing to disagree about. You simply don't know about this. Just do a search on You Tube for "Satanic Hand Signs" and you'll see plenty of footage of Bush making the sign. One video poster explained it this way, "HORNED HAND or THE MANO CORNUTO: This gesture is the satanic salute, a sign of recognition between and allegiance of members of satanism or other unholy groups. It is also called the Il Cornuto." So laugh out loud but remember: he who laughs first laughs last!

[YodanboogerLives]

"...many pictures all over the internet of him making Satanic or possibly Masonic symbols with his hands." Let's agree to disagree because...lolwut?

[voncello]

@YodanboogerLives You think he is saying that the US went to Iraq for religious reasons? I think you'd have a hard time justifying that belief in light of many other factors such as oil. As for Bush, he never went to church as president and there are many pictures all over the internet of him making Satanic or possibly Masonic symbols with his hands. I think you'd also have a hard time proving that he is truly a God fearing man. Rather I think Harris was disproving his own point with the video.

[YodanboogerLives]

@voncello Those American troops were sent to those conflicts by a man named George Walker Bush who claimed on more than one occasion to be acting on God's behalf and once made the statement, "God speaks through me." I think the point of the video is to show the accuracy of Harris' charge, not the hypocrisy of it.

[voncello]

@JoshwithaJ I didn't call the USA a secular nation. I was asking of that is what this video is trying to portray.

[JoshwithaJ]

@voncello I wouldn't go so far as to call the USA a secular nation.

[shandcunt]

Great Message man

[voncello]

It's hard to know what point the author of this video is trying to make. On the one hand we hear Harris saying that religion is the "most divisive and dangerous ideology we have ever produced". And then we see American troops in menacing pictures presumably from a country the Americans invaded. Is the point of this video to show the hypocrisy of accusing religion of being "the most dangerous ideology ever" while the troops of a secular nation menace people all around the globe?

[Unworshipediety]

awesome, Like the mix like the music like it all

[ScienceClubX]

@Victoruto "People's hearts are dark and full of selfishness" absolutely. But you know what else? People's hearts are also light and full of selflessness. We as a species are multifaceted and self-contradictory. Humans are an imperfect animal, but we are beautiful in our imperfection. For you to reduce this vast complexity to "original sin" is a mockery of reality.

Also, can we put the "bag of biological stuff" crap to rest? That's a strawman that needs to be let go, it's making you look bad.