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Sam Harris at the Global Atheist Convention
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RE: Sam Harris at the Global Atheist Convention
July 3, 2012 at 7:37 am (This post was last modified: July 3, 2012 at 7:40 am by Justtristo.)
(July 3, 2012 at 7:24 am)Tempus Wrote: I haven't heard Harris say anything unjustified on Buddhism, spirituality, meditation, etc. Did you ever consider that he might actually have something useful to say on the topics? If you've got a criticism of what he says I'd be interested in hearing it.

Mr Harris has been pretty even handed in his treatment of Buddhism, he did publish this essay on his website for example.

http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/...he-buddha/

Overall while he is philosophically a through going naturalist, he subscribes to a fair amount of Buddhist ideas and John Loftus regarded him as a Buddhist.
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