Sam Harris: Faith vs. Reason in the Modern World (1/5)

Sam Harris: Believing the Unbelievable: The Clash Between Faith and Reason in the Modern World, Aspen Ideas Festival (2007)

Sam Harris gives a lecture on the dangers of mixing iron age philosophies with modern day technology, common misconceptions theists have about atheists and why we need to build a morality system separate from faith.

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The Aspen Institute
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/

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[ClumsyRoot]

Harris starts speaking at 3:00.

[IgnoranceAlliance]

"Sam you have no any business to give any messages to Christians. " you have no any business to give any messages to Sam.

[civildisorder44]

Faith = deceiving yourself for comfort over fear. Insanity

[civildisorder44]

Faith is proof for dummies... Science!!! Read some books morons. You faith & god are opinions based on fairy tales. Science is fact. Idiots...

[jacopman]

Yes indeed....since our alteristic behavioral is the foundation of our morality and is cognitively hardwired through our early species development via natural selection since that behavior assures survival in a highly cognitive social species.

As we evolved from tribal to larger and more orderly social constructs of a society we have refined those behaviors to include a moral set which is cumulatively beneifical to that society.

Morality is neither divinely inspired nor is it objective.

[jacopman]

Reasoning should lead you to investigate the historical accuracy of scripture from a nonbiased (aka non Christian) source before you begin to change your world view on reality based on that scripture.

What you may find will shake that world view to the core.......

[SummerSunshine1988]

True. Sharia law belongs in Muslim nations. America already has its own law.

[Jamie Rose]

Thanks. I have been learning about the worlds religions and social structures and there history. There is a building conflict between the west, built mostly by Christians, but modernizing to be governed by multicultural democracy with large corporate interests and the Muslims instructed to live in a totally religious state using Sharia instead of democrat law. Sharia is not compatible with western ideals. Under Sharia western values and progress die. With out Sharia Islam looses power.

[SummerSunshine1988]

Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

[Jamie Rose]

Jesus Christ is God?

[SummerSunshine1988]

Specifically, Jesus Christ.