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Sam Harris on Whether Religion Really Does Make Everything Worse

The Good Fight

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Is the Core of Your Atheism Just a Statement of Faith?

"There's every reason to believe that the universe is stranger than we really realize," he says. "If we're living in a simulation on some alien supercomputer, the world could be profoundly counterintuitive." The claims of Elrond Hubbard, which marked the foundation of Scientology, are well-documented and have no basis in fact or history,. He adds: "I'm not even closing the door to any possibility of what we might call a miracle ... I mean, the universe is whatever it is"

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