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Originally Posted by Angela  The man's name is Sam Harris, not Richard, and there is no evidence of him advocating the death penalty for embracing any belief. |
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Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them."
Reason Magazine - Among the Non-Believers
"Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them. "This may seem an extraordinary claim, but it merely ...
Reason Magazine - Among the Non-Believers Harris makes it clear that the fault for this state of affairs resides entirely with the believers he thinks we may have to kill. "Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.
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faithful, meanwhile, take some understandable offense at this broad caricature of their mental capacity and ability to face life's harder truths. So each side retreats to its corner, more convinced than ever that the other is trafficking in pure, self-infatuated delusion for the basest of reasons: Believers accuse skeptics and unbelievers of thoughtless hedonism and nihilism; the secular set accuses the believoisie of superstition and antiscientific senselessness.
oh and by the way Richard Dawkins has repeatedly praised him. The book and his theories (and his supporters) are a perfect example of what I am talking about - idealogy or theory - or hatred masked as either - woefully distort their view reality. Anyone with even a rudimentry knowledge of history would laugh at their analysis as a scientist would flat earth theory.
Why do 'smart' people support it? Because the belief advances an agenda and it doesn't matter if the facts don't support it.