A former 40 year Atheist analyzes Atheism, without resorting to theism, deism, or fantasy. *** If You Don't Value Truth, Then What DO You Value? *** If we say that the sane can be coaxed and persuaded to rationality, and we say that rationality presupposes logic, then what can we say of those who actively reject logic? *** Atheists have an obligation to give reasons in the form of logic and evidence for rejecting Theist theories.
I admit that I was way off on Harris' new book which was published in March. I thought that, you know just because he is a celebrity new atheist, the book would make a splash. Yet, as far as I can tell, it has not even made a ripple.
Vox demonstrates the contradiction between Harris's two books, the First, "the End of Faith", claims that beliefs and actions are the same thing, and "Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them."
Then in his current book, he claims that no one is responsible for his own actions because free will is an illusion, and the decisions are all made in advance by our deterministic brains, and then we are notified of what the decisions actually were.
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I admit that I was way off on Harris' new book which was published in March. I thought that, you know just because he is a celebrity new atheist, the book would make a splash. Yet, as far as I can tell, it has not even made a ripple.
Vox demonstrates the contradiction between Harris's two books, the First, "the End of Faith", claims that beliefs and actions are the same thing, and "Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them."
Then in his current book, he claims that no one is responsible for his own actions because free will is an illusion, and the decisions are all made in advance by our deterministic brains, and then we are notified of what the decisions actually were.
Harris is clueless.
The link to Vox didn't take:
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2012/05/sam-harris-and-epic-self-evisceration.html
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