“We are offending people (religious believers) but we are also telling them that it’s wrong to be offended.
Physicists aren’t offended when their view of physics is disproved or challenged, this is not the way rational minds operate when they are really trying to get at what’s true in the world.
Religions purport to be representing reality and yet there’s this peevish and tribal and ultimately dangerous reflective response to having these ideas challenged and I think we’re pointing to the total liability of that.”
–Sam Harris, 30 September 2007.
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