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Sam Harris on Whether Religion Really Does Make Everything Worse

The Good Fight

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How Much Do You Want Your Pilot to Really Believe in the Power of Prayer?

LZ Granderson: We can grant that there's some distance between what people profess to believe and what they really believe. But when people really, really believe these things, how consoled should we be? LZ: How much do you want your airline pilot to really believe in the power of prayer? That's precisely the kind of pilot you don't want. And I think everywhere, what you want are people whose convictions scale with good reasons," he says.

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