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Sam Harris: What happens if you really follow the bible
He claims the laws in Leviticus are "explicit directions for killing people", when in fact there's no evidence any kid was ever killed for talking back to his parents. The error is in trying to literally interpret everything, which is what fundamentalists try to do. To any atheist, I'd recommend reading the Pope's book on Jesus instead to gain a better understanding of what mainstream Christians believe. I'm a protestant, but it's a very brilliant, very well thought out book which explains the difference between casuistic law and general principles in the OT, as well as many other things.
On the issue of morality without Christianity, what he says without saying, is that he can continue to act according to our current set of cultural and ethical norms without being a Christian. Of course he can - it's trivially easy to adopt the norms of a dominant cultural impulse. It's much harder to do what the abolitionists did -- which was to speak out against cultural norms, and risk being killed or branded a lunatic for standing up for something that you believe is right, due to an expanded sense of morality derived from the moral precepts in the Bible.
That's the sort of stuff atheists can't do. Or at least, not very well. All the liberal traditions that atheists have adopted under the banner of "Humanism" were mainly the result of Christian philosophers writing in the Enlightenment era. Religion shouldn't be the basis for war? Christian Enlightenment philosophy. Natural Rights? Human dignity? Separation of Church and State? All of these are concepts which atheists have coopted as their own while pretending that they invented it, and Christians stand opposed to it.
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Shut. The. F***k. Up.
Please.
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Asshole Mario: Stage 1 -- Go!
Meh, this video has been around for years. So I doubt it has anything to do with the knifing, unless the game comes with a precog module built in.