Trump won the white working-man vote..

[Brian37]

I knew you would quote Harris. I don't know, for some people he's kind of a prophet. Yup, he's a scientist, but he's not speaking in his capacity as a scientist but as a philosopher, for lack of a better word.

I've made it pretty clear before, I don't give a shit what Harris thinks and I never understood the near religious adoration some people seem to offer him.

I studied history and had some courses in political sciences. I feel better qualified than Harris to talk about issues like that. And I would never dream about trying to educate Harris on his field of expertise. But when it comes to history or politics everyone seems to feel like an expert these days.

Don't get me wrong. When he talks about Christians and America he is dead right. When he talks about Islam he is also dead right. But when he dodges Buddhism as if it has no flaws, I want to mentally choke him.

I simply don't know why he is so stuck on it? He still has the same problems defending it as anyone else would with any other religion. He is still stuck with the evolutionary fact that evolution is much older and that we came from prior primates which he does accept thankfully. If it is their seeming ability to control their bodies and endure harsh things, the same can be said about training a Navy Seal. 

Harris is no different than any scientist, he does not deserve a pass simply because I agree with some things he says about science. Christians and Jews can also accept parts of science, but when they start trying to defend a club as being better than the other with science, that is where they fail, Sam too. If science COULD prove an ultimately true universal religion that person could win a Nobel Prize and get a patent on it.

I do like Sam, but his Buddhism fetish gives me a lip twitch.