Highlights: Letter to a Christian Nation
I seem to really be harping on the religious stuff lately. Seems like I don't have any humorous social commentary to make (Between me and the other Eric, we've probably said it all...judging by the size of the archive now). Having said that, I finished Sam Harris' new uber-short read Letter to a Christian Nation tonight in a few hours' time. Here are just a few excerpts I wrote down which either had me laughing or applauding, and I thought I'd convey to those reading this.
Speaking about the relatively high percentage of miscarriages and births which we do not know about, in relation to abortion:
If God exists, he is the most prolific abortionist of all.
Paraphrasing from the Bible:
If a man discovers on his wedding night that his wife is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father's doorstep.
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.
2 Comments:
I loved his quick comment on how its so peculiar that all U.S jails are almost (if not entirely) populated by people of religious faith. Perhaps this is a testament to how religion inhibits our ability for rational behaviour, thus facilitating the drive for criminal behaviour :)
I don't recall that stat. I found his comparison of red and blue states to be quite provocative, though (it may have been in the same part?), with all the red states being highest in crime and all this.
The other stat I picked up on was that 70% of people in French jails are Muslim. Very interesting.
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