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"The thing that makese me an atheist from a Christina or Muslim point of view... is that I'm unpersuaded by the textual claims that anchor those two faiths and that any real adherents have to make, in my view." - Sam Harris
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"The place where I break from religion, certainly a religion like Christianity, Judaism, or Islam... the crucial point is on the claims of about the unique sanctity and divine origins of their specific books." - Sam Harris
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"This is an adjacent peak [of goodness] to where the one we're currently climbing, which is quite a bit higher with respect to well-being, insight, creativity, and everything. But the only way to reach it from where we currently stand is to descend into some valley, that's quite a bit worse, in order to climb that adjacent peak." - Sam Harris
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"If you drop the notion of the highest good, you end up in the morass of moral relativism and on the other hand, if you accept it, you end up in a situation where you can justify the worst behavior in reference to the highest possible good." - Jordan Peterson
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"Given the requisite beliefs, it's possible to conciously create immense harm without even haivng bad intentions toward anyone. It's not that your bad intentions and your hatred of others somehow gets a sacred framing by religion... that also happens and its a problem. In the worst case, you can actually be feeling compassion while creating terrible harms.
These [Iraqi terrorists] are going to blow up their own children, what possible good could we do here trying to build a nation? The people that did this didn't actually hate the children... because they know the children are going to go straight to paradise. They've actually done the children a favor." - Sam Harris
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Re: Do not use the Lord's name in vein.
"The sin is to claim to be acting in the name of what is most high when all you're actually doing is pursuing either your own motivations or even worse, your worst possible motivations." - Jordan Peterson
The image that comes to mind is Trump's St. John's Church photo opp.
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"So your claim [Sam Harris] is something like, the possibility of religious justifiication for an unethical act has the side effect of elevating the status of that claim to morality associated with that evil act to the highest place." - Jordan Peterson
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"What is worse about Jihadism compared to ordinary forms of terrorism, in my view? Its the religious topspin... the fact that is it otherworldly anchored to prophecy and belief in the supernatural potentiates it further in the wrong direction." - Sam Harris
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"Of the incentive kind mediated by dophamine is associated with movement towards a posited goal. And so what that means is that false goals produce false enthusiasm.
As far as I can tell, the moral of the story of the tower of babel is that you can build pyramidal structures that reaches to the sky that predicated upon either false goals or false assumptions and the consequence of that is the creation of a state disunity and misery so comprehensive that people can no longer communicate with one another. " - Jordan Peterson
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"So much of what we consider evil, and so much of what we would produce as needless human misery is the result of otherwise, normal people psycologically, behaving terribly becaue they believe fairly crazy and unsupportable things about what reality is and how they should live within it." - Sam Harris
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"There is a heirarchy of uniting structure [in the unified narrative] and what the post-modernists do is make that arbitrarily halt a certain level. It's like you're allowed a uniting narrative or structure up to a certain level, but beyond that, you're not allowed at all." - Jordan Peterson