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#37 — Thinking in Public

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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I'm an Atheist, You Know?

An atheist is a term that's given its meaning mostly within the echo chamber of religious dogmatists. Ttott: Most religious people think only religious people know about nomystical states of consciousness with psychodelics or a long time spent on silent meditation retreats. If you say you're an atheist, you are almost, by definition, from he the religious side, not necessarily from the atheist side,. You are disavowing all of that as either just frank psycho pathology, or conscious fraud, or something that just doesn't bear looking into.

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