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#6 — The Chapel Hill Murders and 'Militant' Atheism

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Atheists Are Not Out There Harming People on the Basis of Their Atheism

Soha: Atheists are simply not out there harming people on the basis of their atheism. There may be atheists who do terrible things, but there's no atheist doctrine or scripture. People like glen greenwald and resaaslan use this very real tragedy in chapel hill to try to stoke a kind of mob mentality around an imagined atheist campaign of bigotry against moslems. This is just a total misrepresentation of how an atheist like myself thinks about human violence. It is simply obvious that some instances of moslem violence have nothing whatever to do with islam. And i would never dream of assigning blame to the religion of islam for that behavior. If you're ever confused about

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