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 aRTy-nz rated 14 months ago- "Sam Harris is no friend of religion. In The End of Faith, he openly mocks god-belief as primitive superstition and condemns it as a threat to human survival. Harris argues that the great modern religions belong on "the scrap heap of mythology," and his zero-tolerance policy applies to religious fundamentalists and moderates alike.
Some reviewers were surprised, therefore, to discover that Harris -- who received a philosophy degree from Stanford University and is a doctoral candidate in the field of neuroscience -- embraces Eastern philosophy and Buddhism. Particularly baffling to some was the declaration, on the concluding page of his book, that "mysticism is a rational enterprise." After a reader lamented this apparent contradiction in a comment at this blog, Harris offered to engage me "
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