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Sam Harris on Whether Religion Really Does Make Everything Worse

The Good Fight

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Are the Foundations of Liberalism and Democracy Ultimately Religious?

There are a lot of scholars who claim that the foundations of liberalism and democracy are ultimately religious. Can we ground a deep belief in these important political values without recourse, explicit or implicit to religion? Yeah, well, I think we obviously can. It's just, I think people draw the wrong lesson from the observation that the roots of much of what we value are religious, right?

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