rjd970
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This is really good stuff.
I would recommend watching the 10 minute video, Ben Affleck loses it and illustrates the problem with Liberals with regard to theocracy. I'm a big fan of Sam Harris, and him and Maher absolutely nail this. This is every bit worth of its 10 minutes:
Can Liberalism Be Saved From Itself? : Sam Harris
In particular from the blog:
This is truth. And it is consistent with his criticisms particular to Jews and Christians. It is not about religion, cultures, race, or political affiliation. It is about bad ideas, and as Harris said, Islam is the mother load of bad ideas right now. Liberals fail, constantly, on this. You can go on CNN and Huffingtonpost right now and read opinions in defense of Afleck and Kristoff. Nobody wants honest discussion, they want knee jerk reaction and PC talk to score popularity and political points, and it is having a real effect on coming up with a real solution to the problem of Islam.
Thoughts?
I would recommend watching the 10 minute video, Ben Affleck loses it and illustrates the problem with Liberals with regard to theocracy. I'm a big fan of Sam Harris, and him and Maher absolutely nail this. This is every bit worth of its 10 minutes:
Can Liberalism Be Saved From Itself? : Sam Harris
In particular from the blog:
Contrary to what many liberals believe, those bad boys who are getting off the bus in Syria at this moment to join ISIS are not all psychopaths, nor are they simply depressed people who have gone to the desert to die. Most of them are profoundly motivated by their beliefs. Many surely feel like spiritual James Bonds, fighting a cosmic war against evil. After all, they are spreading the one true faith to the ends of the earthor they will die trying, and be martyred, and then spend eternity in Paradise. Secular liberals seem unable to grasp how psychologically rewarding this worldview must be.
Yes, the war in Iraq was a catastrophejust as Affleck and Kristof suggest. But take a moment to appreciate how bleak it is to admit that the world would be better off if we had left Saddam Hussein in power. Here was one of the most evil men who ever lived, holding an entire country hostage. And yet his tyranny was also preventing a religious war between Shia and Sunni, the massacre of Christians, and other sectarian horrors. To say that we should have left Saddam Hussein alone says some very depressing things about the Muslim world.
This is truth. And it is consistent with his criticisms particular to Jews and Christians. It is not about religion, cultures, race, or political affiliation. It is about bad ideas, and as Harris said, Islam is the mother load of bad ideas right now. Liberals fail, constantly, on this. You can go on CNN and Huffingtonpost right now and read opinions in defense of Afleck and Kristoff. Nobody wants honest discussion, they want knee jerk reaction and PC talk to score popularity and political points, and it is having a real effect on coming up with a real solution to the problem of Islam.
Thoughts?