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The great unknown.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
SIR: Paul Monk's assessment of the atheist bloc is the latest shot fired in a running battle across the pages of Quadrant between atheism and religion. It included a qualification of Sam Harris's charge against religion and society that individuals are not being held accountable for their unjustified beliefs. Monk returned that our current position of tolerance of an unjustified belief is a reflection of a tortuous historical process and is key to our civilisation. It is natural in relation to this that what distinguishes religion and atheism should draw the most attention, however it is what they have in common that is equally illustrative.
What binds atheism and religion is that they exist fundamentally to posit a view on what occurs after death. Doctrines of this type are, on a simplistic level, reducible to a mathematical equation where x is the unknown, literally and metaphorically, in that x represents that second after we take our last mortal ...
- Sam Harris
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Sam Harris Moves Beyond `Star Search'
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Michael Kuchwara June 1, 1994 700+ words
NEW YORK Sam Harris looks like a choir boy turned crooner, a baby-faced belter who knows...performers; he has a following from his "Star Search" days. There's a Sam Harris Club, and many of its members saw "Grease" before it landed on Broadway...
- 'Twas Brillig ... Sam Harris and the question of PSI.(Critical essay)
- Magazine article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA) Randi, James September 22, 2007 700+ words
...BEEN ADVISED by several of my readers that my acceptance of Sam Harris--author of The End of Faith--might be unwise, not because...about it if it weren't real!" Oh yes they would ... Sam Harris Responds In response to this, my initial assessment of Harris...
- NEWSWEEK Invites Atheist Sam Harris and Christian Pastor Rick Warren to a...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 1, 2007 700+ words
...Warren, one of the best-known pastors in the world, and Sam Harris, an atheist, author and Ph.D. student in neuroscience...there a God in the sense that most Americans think of him? SAM HARRIS: There's no evidence for such a God, and it's instructive...
- Sam's revival.(singer Sam Harris)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Epstein, Jeffrey December 21, 1999 700+ words
Sam Harris went from Star Search to Broadway, but he never had the courage to come...nominated for a Tony for his work as Jojo in the 1997 musical The Life, Sam Harris has been most deeply branded as the first champion of Star Search, the...
- The End of Faith.(book by Sam Harris)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Humanist Niose, David A. May 1, 2005 700+ words
...Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris (New York, NY: Norton, 2004); 325 pp.; $24.95 cloth. THE END OF FAITH, the not-so-subtle title of Sam Harris' first book, is heating up the debate in Humanist circles...
- The God Debate; At The Summit: On a cloudy California day, the atheist Sam...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Meacham, Jon April 9, 2007 700+ words
...big as a bear, with a booming voice and easygoing charm. Sam Harris is compact, reserved and, despite the polemical tone of...there a God in the sense that most Americans think of him? SAM HARRIS: There's no evidence for such a God, and it's instructive...
- Beliefwatch: The Atheist.(Sam Harris)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek October 30, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Lisa Miller At lunch with Sam Harris, one is struck by how personable, how familiar he seems--a soft-spoken, thoughtful man with pleasant manners, a man who...