| | '''Sam Harris''' is an [[American]] [[author]] and [[Atheism|atheist]]. Harris is one of the founders of the [[New Atheism]] movement which is a type of dogmatic, [[militant atheism]] in terms of its [[rhetoric]] (see: [[New Atheism, dogmatism and Jonathon Haidt's study]]). Dr. Harris received a Ph.D. in [[neuroscience]] from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is also a graduate in philosophy from [[Stanford University]]. He wrote two controversial, but New York Times best seller books, ''The End of Faith'' and ''Letter to a Christian Nation''. He has written essays such as "Science must destroy religion".<ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/science-must-destroy-reli_b_13153.html Huffington Post article]</ref> | | '''Sam Harris''' is an [[American]] [[author]] and [[Atheism|atheist]]. Harris is one of the founders of the [[New Atheism]] movement which is a type of dogmatic, [[militant atheism]] in terms of its [[rhetoric]] (see: [[New Atheism, dogmatism and Jonathon Haidt's study]]). Dr. Harris received a Ph.D. in [[neuroscience]] from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is also a graduate in philosophy from [[Stanford University]]. He wrote two controversial, but New York Times best seller books, ''The End of Faith'' and ''Letter to a Christian Nation''. He has written essays such as "Science must destroy religion".<ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/science-must-destroy-reli_b_13153.html Huffington Post article]</ref> |
| − | In 2022, Sam Harris said, "[[Hunter Biden]] could have had the corpses of children in his basement - I would not have cared."<ref>[https://news.grabien.com/story-sam-harris-hunter-biden-literally-could-have-had-corpses-chi SAM HARRIS: ‘HUNTER BIDEN LITERALLY COULD HAVE HAD THE CORPSES OF CHILDREN IN HIS BASEMENT - I WOULD NOT HAVE CARED’]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPuU89j2GL8 Sam Harris ENDS His Career with DERANGED Rant over Trump!!!], [[Steve Turley]] video</ref> In response, [[Vox Day]] wrote: "[[Atheism and morality|Atheists have no moral anchor]]. There’s literally nothing there. Their much-vaunted, self-constructed value systems revolve around nothing more than whatever happens to trigger their emotions at any given moment. They are simple creatures of pure appetite and rhetoric. Remember, Sam Harris is supposed to be among the finest, smartest, most highly-refined philosophers that the atheist community has on offer."<ref>[https://voxday.net/2022/08/19/atheist-morality/ Atheist Morality], Vox Day, August 19, 2022</ref> | + | In 2022, Sam Harris said, "[[Hunter Biden]] could have had the corpses of children in his basement - I would not have cared."<ref>[https://news.grabien.com/story-sam-harris-hunter-biden-literally-could-have-had-corpses-chi SAM HARRIS: ‘HUNTER BIDEN LITERALLY COULD HAVE HAD THE CORPSES OF CHILDREN IN HIS BASEMENT - I WOULD NOT HAVE CARED’]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPuU89j2GL8 Sam Harris ENDS His Career with DERANGED Rant over Trump!!!], [[Steve Turley]] video</ref> In response, [[Vox Day]] wrote: "[[Atheism and morality|Atheists have no moral anchor]]. There’s literally nothing there. Their much-vaunted, self-constructed value systems revolve around nothing more than whatever happens to trigger their emotions at any given moment. They are simple creatures of pure appetite and [[rhetoric]]. Remember, Sam Harris is supposed to be among the finest, smartest, most highly-refined philosophers that the atheist community has on offer."<ref>[https://voxday.net/2022/08/19/atheist-morality/ Atheist Morality], Vox Day, August 19, 2022</ref> |