Harris' take on the recent events in Paris

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I respect Harris. Hes willings to take as many hits as it takes to get his point out there.
EDIT: Hes got a podcast now? I feel old.

Read his political essays on Iraq and torture from the first decade of this century. Watch the interview he gave Cenk Uigur. The whole uncut 3 hours, so there's no manipulating. I did, and I don't respect Harris at all for the above.

Harris constantly points out how violent the muslim book is and denies that the OT contains at least as violent passages. That's either uninformed or totally dishonest. Either way, Harris is a propagandist, who's rather leaninng to the right on most issues.

The only instance where I considered what Harris had to say, were his comments in "The god who wasn't there".

I watched that interview too. It seemed to me that Harris wasn't saying it had more violent parts in it than the Bible, simply that it had nowhere near enough push back from contradictory verses promoting peace. It becomes extremely difficult to stay within the confines of the text without being violent or having a violent world view.
The contradictions in the Bible we're keen to point out are actually a huge part of the reason why Christianity calmed down. You give anyone whos even half rational a loophole they'll choose the easier path of peace to heaven rather than the path of genocide and war.
If a similar change doesn't occur then there will be no calming down.