Rather Than Bring The Full Force Of Our Creativity And Rationality To Bear On The Problems Of Ethics, Social Cohesion, And Even Spiritual Experience, Moderates Merely Ask That We Relax Our Standard Of Adherence To Ancient Superstitions And Taboos, While Otherwise Maintaining A Belief System That Was Passed Down To Us From Men And Women Whose Lives Were Simply Ravaged By Their Basic Ignorance About The World.

-Sam Harris

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Rather Than Bring The Full Force Of

Sam Harris

Rather Than Bring The Full Force Of Our Creativity And Rationality To Bear On The Problems Of Ethics, Social Cohesion, And Even Spiritual Experience, Moderates Merely Ask That We Relax Our Standard Of Adherence To Ancient Superstitions And Taboos, While Otherwise Maintaining A Belief System That Was Passed Down To Us From Men And Women Whose Lives Were Simply Ravaged By Their Basic Ignorance About The World.

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Creativity

Ignorance

And While Protestant Reformers Broke With Rome On A Variety Of Counts, Their Treatment Of Their Fellow Human Beings Was No Less Disgraceful. Public Executions Were More Popular Than Ever: Heretics Were Still Reduced To Ash, Scholars Were Tortured And Killed For Impertinent Displays Of Reason, And Fornicators Were Murdered Without A Qualm.

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