Episode 59: Tumors All the Way Down (With Sam Harris)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Importance of Belief in Religion
"I think you sometimes overestimate the degree to which religion is about belief," says Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. "The basis for a practice can either be dogmatic and irrational, or engaged very much in the spirit of a scientific hypothesis." To get orthodox Judaism off the ground, the buy-in isPretty steep. You have to believe certain things on the basis of precious little evidence,. Like the Hebrew Bible, the Torah is the actual word of the Creator. Why do you say that you have to? Well, you have to see how ridiculous the claim is on its face?"
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