Your favorite intellectuals are as lost as you are. Only their performance is more convincing.
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The tweet was induced by the ignorance displayed by the Sam Harris & Hitchens cultists on the platform. These two and their followers don't understand the importance of religion as a meme which fills an existential vacuum through symbolic meaning-conveyance.
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Religion has little to do with a belief in a supernatural deity but much more to do with culture, community and rituals. These have transmuted; wrapped in secular cloth, but very much present everywhere where a human being lives. Religion is indelible; bound to human nature.
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So them imposing authority fallacies on their own arguments to season their cosmovision with a touch of Academia/IYI doesn't make it any more convincing. Just as the sheep follow the shepherd, they follow their idols; they embody exactly that which they criticize.
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The master said, “He who offends against Heaven has no one to whom he can pray.”pic.twitter.com/gTi9S6YgXN
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That last quote is gorgeous. Reminds me of Krishnamurti when he said "identification breeds violence" To identify as something is to deny your belonging to the rest of humankind.
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I really like that one. “Don’t eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil” my favorite story of all time. The basis for all eastern religion (non dualism).
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