Monday, September 04, 2006

Reason Finally Strikes Back.


Provided humankind survives what it has already wrought upon the earth, the time has come for inventory-taking, house cleaning. We must decide what we will take with us on our journey through the new millennium.

Religions which demand blood sacrifices are off our list of things to carry.

Being an Atheist in America Isn't Easy - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com:

Sept. 11, 2006 issue - Americans answered the atrocities of September 11, overwhelmingly, with faith. Attacked in the name of God, they turned to God for comfort; in the week after the attacks, nearly 70 percent said they were praying more than usual. Confronted by a hatred that seemed inexplicable, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson proclaimed that God was mad at America because it harbored feminists, gays and civil libertarians. Sam Harris, then a 34-year-old graduate student in neuroscience, had a different reaction. On Sept. 12, he began a book. If, he reasoned, young men were slaughtering people in the name of religion, something that had been going on since long before 2001, of course, then perhaps the problem was religion itself. The book would be called 'The End of Faith,' which to most Americans probably sounds like a lament. To Harris it is something to be encouraged.

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