BBC special on secularism.

BBC special on secularism.

BBC special on secularism.

BBC special on secularism.

BBC special on secularism.

What is happiness? How does one get a grip on this most elusive, intractable and perhaps unanswerable of questions?

BBC special on secularism.

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Pat Condell rants on god.

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Andy Thomson gives his talk titled ‘Why We Believe in Gods’ at the American Atheist 2009 convention in Atlanta, Georgia.

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The satirical paper The Onion demonstrates how ridiculous it is to suggest that God’s motives are beyond our understanding.

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Truthdig asked Harris to write a charter document for his thesis that belief in God, and appeasement of religious extremists of all faiths by moderates, has been and continues to be the greatest threat to world peace and a sustained assault on reason.

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Chris Wood delivers a ballad of unbelief.

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God-Man the Superhero.  The world’s first darkly modern superhero.

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Richard Dawkins offers the virus as a model for understanding religion.  Just like a virus is a self-replicating body of genetic information that infects host cells to spread copies of itself, religion is a self-replicating body of information that infects human minds and uses humans to spread copies of itself.

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Sam Harris speaks about the rational basis for morality at the 2008 Beyond Belief conference at the Salk Institute.  He argues that science should not cede the territory of morals and values to religion.  He predicts that just as religion used to be the authority on medicine, science, and physics before science pushed it aside, religion’s monopoly on ethics will also get pushed aside as science makes progress on questions of morality.  This lecture is intellectually very significant because it attacks the prevailing “non-overlapping magistera” split between science and religion.

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Sam Harris and Rick Warren meet in a debate moderated by Newsweek’s Editor in Chief, Jon Meacham.

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American Jewish University presents best-selling authors Sam Harris and Rabbi David Wolpe in a debate about the existence of God and the role of religion and faith in society. This debate is moderated by Los Angeles Times religion editor Steve Padilla.

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Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan debate the rationality of religious faith.

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God-Man the Superhero.  Yes, theodicy in comic-strip form!

Lewis Black comments on televangelists.