Problem with Sam Harris

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Religions will not stop fighting... ever.


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Religions don't fight. People do. You might try eliminating money, property, and prestige as well. Oh and don't forget women. How many bar fights are over religion?

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Being "beyond objective evidence does not mean there is no evidence. The evidence is just subjective, as it must be.

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Sorry, but subjective evidence is NOT evidence



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It is to the people who experience it.

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Maybe so, but wasn't it vHawk who wisely pointed out that we reject personal subjective evidence as inherently unreliable. Evidence does not have to be objective to be evidence - it just has to be agreed upon. We codify this through "science".