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Title: Sam Harris: The Moral Failings of Religion
Added: Dec 21, 2010
Author: ForaTv
Duration: 3:49
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Sam Harris: The Moral Failings of ReligionComplete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/10/Sam_Harris_Can_Science_Determine_Human_ValuesSam Harris, author of The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, discusses the shortcomings of organized religion as a guide for human morality. -----In this highly anticipated, explosive new book, the author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation calls for an end to religion's monopoly on morality and human values. In The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, Sam Harris tears down the wall between scientific facts and human values to dismantle the most common justification for religious faith -- that a moral system cannot be based on science.The End of Faith ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In its aftermath, Harris discovered that most people, from secular scientists to religious fundamentalists, agree on one point: Science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Even among religious fundamentalists, the defense one most often hears for belief in God is not that there is compelling evidence that God exists, but that faith in Him provides the only guidance for living a good life. Controversies about human values are controversies about which science has officially had no opinion. Until now.Morality, Harris argues, is actually an undeveloped branch of neuroscience, and answers to questions of human value can be visualized on a "moral landscape" -- a space of real and potential outcomes whose peaks and valleys correspond to human states of greater or lesser wellbeing. Different ways of thinking and behaving -- different cultural practices, ethical codes, modes of government, etc. -- translate into movements across this landscape. Such changes can be analyzed objectively on many levels, ranging from biochemistry to economics, but they have their crucial realization as experiences in the human brain.Bringing a fresh, secular perspective to age-old questions of right and wrong, and good and evil, Harris shows that we know enough about the human brain and its relationship to events in the world to say that there are right and wrong answers to the most pressing questions of human life. Because such answers exist, cultural relativism is simply false -- and comes at increasing cost to humanity. And just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim algebra, there can be no Christian or Muslim morality. Using his expertise in philosophy and neuroscience, along with his experience on the front lines of our "culture wars," Sam Harris delivers a game-changing argument about the future of science and about the real basis of human cooperation. - Berkeley Arts and LettersSam Harris is an American non-fiction author, and CEO of Project Reason. He received a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA, and is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University. He has studied both Eastern and Western religious traditions, along with a variety of contemplative disciplines, for twenty years. He is a proponent of scientific skepticism and is the author of The End of Faith (2004), which won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), a rejoinder to criticism of his first book, and The Moral Landscape (2010).
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Youtube Comments: 512
DaReegz Says:
Mar 17, 2012 - I read your comment wrong, and I apologize.The way it was phrased made it seem like you did still want to have children believe it.I've had friends who were not religious, and as soon as they had kids, they started sending them to church; that's the only reason I replied (for fear that was your thought process, as well).
frankielee77 Says:
Mar 19, 2012 - ...The writer is not God,and it was plain that he told us that he is no God.Which part you cannot understand?God inspired writers to write the Bible and it has never been dictation of word for word from God.The Bible is God's words.It still does.
frankielee77 Says:
Mar 19, 2012 - ...Do you think that the basic understanding of "Not fucking with married people,...a kind of moral came from Common Sense"?If not for the Bible where do you think we get our moral,and the God's sense of what is Right and Wrong?
frankielee77 Says:
Mar 19, 2012 - Christianity taught the world Morality,and of Righteousness,but Sam Harris taught our world deceptively,Immoral and godlessness...and told us we are at liberty to do what we want,and we will not be judge after death,because there are none,..really...SAM HAD THE CHEEK TO LIE TO US ALL?He even accuse us of Moral Failings?Is he not an Idiot?
TheHigherVoltage Says:
Mar 19, 2012 - #1 we know and can prove humanity has existed far longer than the bible timeline claims we have.#2 we know and can prove that marriage existed in cultures long before they were exposed to Christian superstitions.#3 fucking around is a breaking of trust...breaks of trust have consequences. I don't need mythology to figure that out.#4 you reall ythink we get our morality from a cultgod that orders genocides, advocates slavery, and treating women like shit?
Jusoon Says:
Mar 19, 2012 - So, then, you are saying the Bible is not the literal word of God? Every single word of it could be 100% wrong, because it was simply "inspired" by God? Look, either it is the inviolate word of an Omnipotent diety or it is not and is thus fallible. If it is, God endorses slavery, genocide, murder. If it isn't why the hell do we care about a 2,000 year old book full of ignorance?
TomFynn Says:
Mar 21, 2012 - "Christianity taught the world Morality,and of Righteousness" Sure, so moral an righteous that they went out and killed or forcibly converted everyone else. Pull the other one. It got bells on.
goodneff Says:
Mar 23, 2012 - because u dont make the rules. jehovah god he is the god of abraham and why dont you do ahead and throw in the fact that jehovah is useing satan for the harvest and u we are growing old .where is the forgiveness. and on and on. do not hate jehovah god .folks live youre life with rightousness, you will be judged whether you like it or not.consider the alternative eternal death. the lord angrybut we have to try.its important . ww3 is around the corner and they poisoning us hence chemtrails google
goodneff Says:
Mar 23, 2012 - do u have to beleive in god to know u dont want to kill a baby? im a wig splitten red neck when i need to.people think im insane . i know things they dont understand.the usa millitary killed over a million people who did this? 3 thousand babies everyday aborted pro whore pro choice who did this?.do u need to know god to know these things are wrong for u.im getting way to truthfull they will delete my channel again.satan wants u ignorant in the dark.i beleive in jehovah .my wall bare's his name.
goodneff Says:
Mar 23, 2012 - how would u feel if u gave life to unthankfull ones that deserved to die.a world created for you to destroy hence those who destroy the earth shall be destroyed. for he who is the highest over all the earth is jehovah .forgive the translation. forgivness ? for a pardon .i wake up to a rotten world everyday and ww3 around the corner. lately i look forward to dieing because of the lack of care. and uderstand why we need jehovah god praise the lord. i feel it in my heart. thanks
goodneff Says:
Mar 23, 2012 - the bible says call no man a fool or worthless but i can say you are foolish .a book of ignorance! i can answere that out of care. because you will be destroyed allso.when i was boy i had a dream over n over that the earth opened up and i fell into this gaping crevice. then i learned of a lake of fire. who knows ?i remeber a scriputure and they shall know i am god.the meanist and toughest folks beleive in jehovah god.
goodneff Says:
Mar 23, 2012 - not just fear. fear i foolishly forget sometimes but a belief in my heart not a sytem i dont need to beleive in god to know i dont want to kill babies. im not a good man for helping a dieing person. jehovah is god do not criticize what u dont understand. allso obey the law of the land.if u dont like stoning people then dont do it .there has been a time or two i was comfortable stoneing some of these babie killing ladies lol.and most of all i can think of nothing greater than being a good son .
TheHigherVoltage Says:
Mar 23, 2012 - Biblegod is a myth....just like all the other mythgods.It's a shame you haven't figured this out yet.
TomFynn Says:
Mar 24, 2012 - "lately i look forward to dieing because of the lack of care" Have your clinical depression treated.
02Blackbeard Says:
Apr 16, 2012 - Slavery is still with us, only in more subtle and hidden forms.Ganesh does not EXIST like a cow exists. He is the personification of metaphysical and esoteric principles.
lifeschild1 Says:
Apr 21, 2012 - Is that Ben Stiller or Sam Harris?
lifeschild1 Says:
Apr 21, 2012 - Correct! Now slavery is considered to be the institution of MARRIAGE!
02Blackbeard Says:
Apr 21, 2012 - And yet some people even want GAY marriage.I was thinking more in terms of consummerism and debt, and "1984". But I can see why SOME people may come to see marriage as slavery.
RamboRepublican Says:
Apr 24, 2012 - I'm an atheist and a racist simultaneously. I believe traditional religion and multiculturalist melting pots are both archaic ideas. I guess I'm some sort of alien.Works for me. I wish people would do what they believe is good for the world more often. Instead they thrive around social approval and play "the smart guy" by mimicking each other.You all celebrate cultural and racial and religious diversity so much yet you deeply fear intellectual diversity and idea diversity.
SkywalkerG1o Says:
Apr 27, 2012 - Please go kill your self
RamboRepublican Says:
Apr 27, 2012 - cry cry
manthasagittarius1 Says:
Apr 30, 2012 - Well -- your morality may keep you out of hell, but your English must have had you staying in after school plenty.
2ndhanddbooks Says:
May 13, 2012 - Could you explain you reason behind your belief in the bible to me? Do you believe the bible is the word of God because the men who wrote it said that it was? Also, by what you so eloquently describe as 'babie killing ladies' do you mean people who kill a minuscule amount of undifferentiated cells through abortion? When you emote that 'the meanest and toughest folks believe in jehovah god' to what end do you make this bold and cringe-worthy assertion...
2ndhanddbooks Says:
May 13, 2012 - ... and does it not show an internal contradiction between the bibles championing of 'compassion' through the actions and teaching of Jesus?
sgtzero1337 Says:
Mar 17, 2012 - I never said that we should make children believe because that only creates a negative impact of fear...