“Certainty in the next life is simply incompatible with tolerance in this one.”
- Sam Harris
Bill O’Reilly is at it again trying to swing it for his miseducated nuts and sounding like a little fool. Apparently, conservatives have just learned about World War II because they have been flinging around the words “Hitler” and “Fascism” a lot lately and very freely. It doesn’t deliver their message across better, it just makes them look more uneducated than ever. In fact, people who love Hitler predominantly vote republican, or are we wrong?
The real problem is that liberals are calm and reserved when it comes to argument and conservatives yell nonsense loud. This make their standpoint more affective. Richard Dawkins has it right when he says “stop shouting” and then the fool says “That’s just the way I speak.” Really? or is it the only way they know how to make a point with the absurd Neanderthal ways? Someone’s religious beliefs should not be imposed on everybody. Even if the majority believes in it. Period. The majority believed the earth was flat back then. Does it make it flat?
Sam Harris takes on the far (and near) right in his plight against organized religion and his firm belief that secularism is absolutely crucial for the furtherment of civilization, which science and reason can only propagate.
His sentiment is directed to the US, but it does not shy away from world examples and implicit historical referencing. His short letter of a book does not only shed light on the abandonment of reason, but also the complete disregard for scientific advancements throughout human history, which stand as his beacon examples of rational thinking and proof for his athiesm – a term he renders as irrelevant taking a more rationalist approach.