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#68 — Reality and the Imagination

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Implications of Technology for Religion

There is a good chance that silicon valley in places like it will create not just gadgets and tools but ideological systems and even religions. i think there is not no essential difference between ideology and religion they both fulfill the same function in history to give legitimacy to human institutions, he says. Whether there is a god involved or not is really far less important than the historical function because in the end it's not god that makes religions it's humans that make religion the great meme fake news can last forever let's get t-shirts printed!

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