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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (177201)	12/7/2005 12:59:13 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

but not with a president who seriously believes he's ordained by God to fight terrorism. trouble is there's the ones on the other side that believe the same thing. Pantheism.... now ! ;) <<" epilogue from The 'End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason'.... by Sam Harris" >> Message 21946757 My goal in writing this book has been to help close the door to a certain style of irrationality. While religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction, it is still sheltered from criticism in every corner of our culture. Forsaking all valid sources of information about this world (both spiritual and mundane), our religions have seized upon ancient taboos and prescientific fancies as though they held ultimate metaphysical significance. Books that embrace the narrowest spectrum of political, moral, scientific, and spiritual understanding – books that, by their antiquity alone, offer us the most dilute wisdom with respect to the present – are still dogmatically thrust upon us as the final word on matters of great significance. In the best case, faith leaves otherwise well-intentioned incapable of thinking rationally about many of their deepest concerns; at worst, it is a continuous source of human violence.