The Four Horsemen – Hour 1 The Four Horsemen – Hour 2 RichardDawkins.net, The Four Horsemen: on Christmas: “All four authors have recently received a large amount of media attention for their writings against religion – some positive, and some negative. In this conversation the group trades stories of the public’s reaction to their recent [...]
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The Four Horsemen
December 24th, 2007
Tags: atheism · christopher hitchens · daniel dennett · religion · richard dawkins · sam harris
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: abandoned to fanatics
October 9th, 2007
Salman Rushdie en Sam Harris over Ayaan Hirshi Ali: “Most shamefully, Jan Peter Balkenende, the Dutch prime minister, has recommended that Hirsi Ali simply quit the Netherlands and has refused to grant her even a week’s protection outside the country, during which she might raise funds to hire security of her own. Is this a [...]
Tags: ayaan hirsi ali · christopher hitchens · nl · salman rushdie · sam harris
Anyone feeling nostalgic for the “wisdom” of the Aztecs?
September 14th, 2007
Sam Harris: “Haidt concludes his essay with this happy blandishment: “every longstanding ideology and way of life contains some wisdom, some insights into ways of suppressing selfishness, enhancing cooperation, and ultimately enhancing human flourishing.” Surely we can all agree about this. Our bets have been properly hedged (the ideology must be “longstanding” and need only [...]
Tags: atheism · edge · jonathan haidt · religion · sam harris