A Debate between Sam Harris & Dennis Prager
A Debate between Sam Harris & Dennis Prager
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#1A Debate between Sam Harris & Dennis Prager
Posted: 12/28/06 at 4:13pm
Earlier this year, Newsweek religion columnist Marc Gellman confessed that atheists had lately befuddled him: “What I simply do not understand is why they are often so angry,” Gellman lamented. “I just don’t get it.”
Why are atheists so angry? Sam Harris and Dennis Prager inaugurate Jewcy’s “Big Question” series by arguing this very question. In the Big Question, passionate thinkers will debate the weightiest, most contentious issues of the day via e-mail.
Author of the thundering anti-theist polemics The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation, Harris may just be the Thomas Paine of an emerging movement to wrench religion out of American life. Prager is a nationally syndicated talk radio host who trumpets the virtues of the Judeo-Christian tradition. For the next four days, each of them will send us one e-mail per day.
http://jewcy.com/dialogue/monday_why_are_atheists_so_angry_sam_harris
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
#2re: A Debate between Sam Harris & Dennis Prager
Posted: 12/28/06 at 4:23pm
This is a false argument. Athiests are no more angry than theists...perhaps even less angry.
Dennis Prager used to be a thoughtful intelligent thinker before he became just another front for the so-called "Christian" right-wing.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#2re: A Debate between Sam Harris & Dennis Prager
Posted: 12/28/06 at 4:27pm
Man, oh Man...
Is this going to be good......
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#3re: A Debate between Sam Harris & Dennis Prager
Posted: 12/28/06 at 4:29pmOh, but Harris' version of "Over The Rainbow" is so lovely..
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#4re: A Debate between Sam Harris & Dennis Prager
Posted: 12/28/06 at 4:42pm
This debate will be roughly as interesting as watching two children decide who gets to play playstation next.
Neither men know more than the basic arguments surrounding their causes, and most certainly neither knows their own philosophical and epistemological tradition's history.
But, I'm sure both will be sure to have all the answers ready for our consumption.
"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"
-- unknown
#5re: A Debate between Sam Harris & Dennis Prager
Posted: 12/28/06 at 4:42pm
"Oh, but Harris' version of "Over The Rainbow" is so lovely.."
ROFLMAO
Yeah, he's pretty good in "The Class" also.
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#6re: A Debate between Sam Harris & Dennis Prager
Posted: 12/28/06 at 5:30pmRemember those red sequined high-topped sneakers?
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
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