--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > Me: > This is such an interesting piece about perspectives and > our emotional investment to them. And it points out how > vulnerable to the same emotional attachment to ideas both > believers and non believers are. There is something in > this for everyone:
<snip> [quoting Sam Harris] > Of course, if you are anything like my friends, you will > refuse to believe this. And that should give you some > sense of what we are up against whenever we confront > religion. I read about all the dangers of wood smoke in a news article the other day, and my reaction was: Gee, that's a major drag. Who knew? Now reading Harris's piece, my first reaction was: Boy, he must have some really strange friends. Then I thought: Maybe if his friends had read the news story about these dangers rather than having been aggressively hit over the head with them by Harris, they'd have responded more like I did. And then I thought: Maybe what Harris is up against whenever he confronts religionists is...Harris.
