Archived (((The Problem With Miracles - Sam Harris))) (youtube.com)
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Archived (((The Problem With Miracles - Sam Harris))) (youtube.com)
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[–] PeaceSeeker 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Of all the New Atheists, Sam Harris is one of the few who was actually a trained philosopher - which makes the shallowness of his worldview all the more damning. On Daniel Dennett, and then Harris:
Or I guess as you'd put it, he invented a new tradition from the ground up!
As for Harris' actual comments here, he readily conflates many points. Private revelation vs public. Evidence vs faith uninformed by reason. And he seems to think the Gospels being written decades after the events calls into question their reporting, whereas the number of manuscripts and proximity in time to the events described rivals all other historic texts from that period. The reason "half the world" believes in Jesus Christ is because eleven fishermen and a lawyer, plus a former violent persecutor of Christians, all went to their deaths to testify to the many miracles they saw, and in so doing established a Church which has served to dispense grace to those within it, and that includes further miracles, ever since. I'm sure a bunch of Indians desperate for spiritual validation would show up to see underwhelming "miracles" from a guy with an afro. But the miracles of Lourdes, or Sokolka, or Fatima, or Guadeloupe, are far from underwhelming...nor is the miracle of a bunch of fishermen establishing a worldwide religion by letting themselves be martyred underwhelming. Not at all.
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