(January 29, 2016 at 11:51 am)Evie Wrote: Everything he says is a load of fallacious disingenuous bullshit. So why would I want to read one of his books?
WLC is a cunt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wACrnKD6exY
I watched the video clip you presented.
And now, I offer this in reply:
Quote:A few days ago, in a post on faith healing, American Atheists president Dave Silverman wrote: “We must recognize religion as brainwashing. We must recognize the (hyper) religious as mentally damaged.”
He’s not the first to equate religion with mental illness or “mental damage.” Bill Maher has called religion “a neurological disorder.” Sam Harris wrote in The End of Faith, “it is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.” Facebook groups claiming religion is a “mental disorder” or “mental disease” boast hundreds of members, and a list of “7 reasons why religion is a form of mental illness” has been shared on a number of atheist blogs.
- See more at: http://chrisstedman.religionnews.com/201...mCdsZ.dpuf
As you can see from the quote from Harris' book, he does believe that mental illness causes people to be attracted to religion.
And Harris was clearly referring to God as a psychopath in the debate.
Consequently, I don't think that WLC misrepresented Harris' position AT ALL.