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Sam Harris on Whether Religion Really Does Make Everything Worse

The Good Fight

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Is There Any Reason Why We Shouldn't Overcome Tribalism and Xenophobia?

The Quran could have been a document that just assiduously spelled out the political equality of men and women, but it doesn't do that. So there's no argument against doing that, right? And we have effectively done that just because we have over the course of many centuries smashing religion against secular ethics and scientific rationality. We've made immense progress even under the shadow of these divisive and tribal identities.

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