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The Russell Brand Interview

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Incitingin of Your Public Life, Your Life as a Public Intellectual Was Nine 11

I think it is absolutely clear that while those r ables account for some of the misbehaviour in our world, there are still people who get up in the morning with 100 % of their motivation being a religious expectation of an after life. I can just find you these people who have none of the other variables that people would want to use to explain the terrestrial variables, economics, politics. There are people who drop out of the london school of economics, who are british citizens, so that they can go fight with isis. What is that to you? It imply the toxicity of religious ideology. It's not even purely toxic. And this is the horrible paradox here.

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