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VIDEO: Sam Harris Discusses Religion Run Amok (FORA.tv)
“With gentle demeanor and tight argument, Sam Harris carried an overflow audience into the core of one of the crucial issues of our time: What makes some religions lethal? How do they employ aggressive irrationality to justify threatening and controlling non-believers as well as believers? What should be our response?”- The Long Now Foundation
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Politics
Trivia Question: Which Current State Governor Participated in an Exorcism?
Here are some clues:
A convert to Christianity during the early 1990s, this governor is no academic slouch, having been accepted at both Yale Law School and Harvard Medical School.
At the age of 24, he was appointed his state’s Secretary of Health and Hospitals.
He ran for governor, and then for Congress, and then for Governor again.
He is now 37 years old.
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