The Long Now Foundation
San Francisco, CA
Dec 9th, 2005
The View From The End Of The World with Sam Harris.
“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
Topics include:
The Taboo of Critiquing Religion
Religious Moderation and Terrorism
A Reason Not to Give Reasons
The Endtimes
Resurgence of Fundamentalism
Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American non-fiction writer and philosopher. He is the author of The End of Faith (2004), which won the 2005PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), a rejoinder to the criticism his first book attracted.
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