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I have posted this entry in the interests of peace;
I have no other objective than peace. My intention is not to cause hatred
between religions or between those of a religious faith and those who do not
believe in religion. My purpose is to see what your opinion is on this
subject and open some sort of dialogue in the interests of peace. I am
not going to express my opinion at this stage as I do not want to influence any
opinions, not that I think I could and my opinion is only that, an
opinion. But if I do give an opinion at this point then it may determine
who does and does not enter into this discussion.
I am reading this book at the moment and I have to admit it has been a bit of an eye opener.
I came across Sam Harris giving a lecture about his book at YouTube. The man speaks well and I believe that he does give a very good argument.
I have the video footage listed below from his lecture and also the links at YouTube if you feel that you could watch them better via YouTube. Each clip runs for a bit over 20 minutes. I know that it is a big ask, but if you do want "Peace on Earth" then I urge you to watch his lecture. Please don't just watch one clip and decide he is talking a whole heap of crap, please watch all of the lecture as otherwise you will be taking his opinions out of context.
If you have read his book then you probably don't need to watch his lecture, but I would love your opinions. If you haven't read his book then I would prefer it if you watched his lecture before you comment. However, if you have already made up your mind on this subject then please feel free to make a comment, but I still do believe you would benefit from watching his lecture.
I believe that anyone who does belong to a religion should watch this lecture, not to convince you to stop following your religion but so that you have an understanding of why there maybe issues with religion and the failure of finding more peace in this world. It is obvious that not all conflicts are caused by religion; however we cannot ignore the fact that some violence in this world does have a religious motivation to it.
So I hope you take the time to consider watching his lecture and then also leave a comment. I won't be around for a couple of days so I will not be able to reply to any comments for a while. But to be honest I am happy to just be an observer at this stage and not respond just yet. Who knows I may not even get any comments.
Please feel free to say whatever you wish - there are no rules of conduct on this entry.
I will now hand it over to Sam Harris.
Peace be with you.
I am reading this book at the moment and I have to admit it has been a bit of an eye opener.
I came across Sam Harris giving a lecture about his book at YouTube. The man speaks well and I believe that he does give a very good argument.
I have the video footage listed below from his lecture and also the links at YouTube if you feel that you could watch them better via YouTube. Each clip runs for a bit over 20 minutes. I know that it is a big ask, but if you do want "Peace on Earth" then I urge you to watch his lecture. Please don't just watch one clip and decide he is talking a whole heap of crap, please watch all of the lecture as otherwise you will be taking his opinions out of context.
If you have read his book then you probably don't need to watch his lecture, but I would love your opinions. If you haven't read his book then I would prefer it if you watched his lecture before you comment. However, if you have already made up your mind on this subject then please feel free to make a comment, but I still do believe you would benefit from watching his lecture.
I believe that anyone who does belong to a religion should watch this lecture, not to convince you to stop following your religion but so that you have an understanding of why there maybe issues with religion and the failure of finding more peace in this world. It is obvious that not all conflicts are caused by religion; however we cannot ignore the fact that some violence in this world does have a religious motivation to it.
So I hope you take the time to consider watching his lecture and then also leave a comment. I won't be around for a couple of days so I will not be able to reply to any comments for a while. But to be honest I am happy to just be an observer at this stage and not respond just yet. Who knows I may not even get any comments.
Please feel free to say whatever you wish - there are no rules of conduct on this entry.
I will now hand it over to Sam Harris.
Peace be with you.
* 28/06/07 please note the original set of 8 videos of 10 minutes in length that I had listed were removed from YouTube. I have managed to find a set of 4 videos each about 20 minutes in length to take their place - hopefully these won't be removed from YouTube.
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