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#37 — Thinking in Public

Making Sense with Sam Harris

CHAPTER

The Problem With Atheism

CNN's John Sutter spoke with physicist Richard Dawkins on Twitter. He said he never used the term atheist in his first book, which inducted him into the "small club of the new atheist" The political variable of atheism may have its moment, historically, but there is a real weakness in the term, he says. But if some one asks me if i'm an atheist, i will go on to say how empty that term is and it doesn't capture any of what interests me about spiritual experience.

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