Sam Harris Counters Religious Moderation [Video]

By Daniel Miessler on June 9th, 2009: Tagged as Religion

I think what I’m going to focus on in my future arguments on these lines is actual data on the massive percentage of the American populace that actually holds these most extreme beliefs.

That’s the piece I should have written a long time ago. In short, it will attempt to show that most of the “moderates” are in many tangible ways “extremists”. And that because of this their beliefs do pose a threat to a healthy society. ::

  • ax0n

    I think I finally get it — 'it' being your beef with Christianity. I'm far from an extremist. I'm tolerant (not respectful) of many things and somehow that makes me one of those wishy-washy no-good moderate Christians.

    Basically, it appears that you're trying to push the (very real) fact that extremists are dangerous. Then comes the army of straw men. Crazed extremists are easy to debunk. Rational, intelligent, sane, and tolerant people? Not so much. So you pull up a bunch of work from others (either with the same agenda — yes, agenda — as yourself, or pick a name from the giant pool of highly visible Christian extremists) to back up your opinion that moderate, tolerant Christians are detestable and unworthy Christians.

    So tolerance makes us bad Christians, Intolerance makes us mongers of oppression.

    I ask: “What of your intolerance?”


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