Showing posts with label Sam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sam. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 12, 2010


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.

Monday, April 26, 2010

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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