A proposition: What serves Sam Harris as God? The self-evidence of the unacceptability of undue suffering. I derived this from his fundamental axiomatic statement in The Moral Landscape @SamHarrisOrg
What symbolizes for Christians the utilitarian principle that we should strive to minimize the suffering and maximize the well-being of other sentient life? Their mental images of God's beneficence, Mary's tenderness, and Christ's sacrifice.
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"he doesn't believe in a literal sky-daddy" well he believes in a theism which makes claim to a really specific sky-daddy with a history of inciting violence and stupidity, and human translation of holy books offer direct incitement to violence and unreason and immoral thinking.
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