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How to talk to a Christian

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Christianity Is a Cult of Human Sacrifice

If you wake up to morrow morning thinking that saying a few latin words over your pancakes is going to turn them into the body of elvis, presly you have lost your mind. But if you think more or less the same thing about a cracker and the body of jesus, you're just a catholic. The idea is that jesus suffered the crucifixion so that none need suffer hell, except those billions in india. This doctrine is stride a contemptible history of scientific ignorance and religious barbarism. We come from people who used to bury children under the foundations of new buildings as offerings to their imaginary gods. These are the sorts of people who wrote

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