Once again Sam Harris speaks frankly when discussing the Church and why no legal action has yet been taken and asks for help with Project Reason.

Just imagine a pious mother and father sending their beloved child to the Church of a Thousand Hands for spiritual instruction, only to have him raped and terrified into silence by threats of hell. And then imagine this occurring to tens of thousands of children in our own time -- and to children beyond reckoning for over a thousand years. The spectacle of faith so utterly misplaced, and so fully betrayed, is simply too depressing to think about.

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The Four Horsemen

You may have heard about this little informal discussion between Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, during which they discuss the level of attacks on them by theists and by their fellow atheists and agnostics.

The so called Four Horsemen of Atheism comprises of two one hour videos and they hit on a number of different topics regarding the reaction to their own books as well as criticisms and common misrepresentations about their ideas.

Anyway, although I know my dad would say, they are just a bunch of pompous, self-righteous cretins I found the videos quite interesting nonetheless:

Video One

Video Two

Sam Harris: Can the process of science answer moral questions?

Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can -- and should -- be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.

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