Atheists & Agnostics
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I don't like being put in the position of having to defend Sam Harris. But Christ on a pogo stick, Cenk Uygur doesn't understand basic probability.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)I don't have time to sit through a three hour video.
Scairp
(2,749 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)At about thirty minutes in, it is clear to my Uygur is completely out of his league. The one instance that stood out the most is when he tries to take Harris to task for saying Mormonism is basically Christianity with more bad ideas. He argues that believing Missouri to be the predestined kingdom of the returned Christ isn't any more absurd than simply believing that Christ will return. Sam tries to explain the statistics of it, that localizing an improbable event to a specific place adds another layer of improbability to the question, but Cenk just doesn't get it. He keeps saying Harris is "wrong".
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)they inevitably fall into indefensible positions.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)He seems to think they're all religions are equally bad, which is probably just as dumb.
Whatever his position may be, it is clear he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. He just tried to say killing Jews is codified in Christianity because of what's written in the Old Testament.
Um. The Old Testament is whose holy book again? I'm pretty sure you can't draw a direct line from what's written there to "kill teh Jews". Cenk might want to read the book before he talks about it next time. Just a thought.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Didn't the Jews WRITE the Old smelly Testament?
"Kill us!" it says!
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)There have been a few videos where he's covered some material, and then as if on cue... Fucking ruins it, so I can't share it with others/post it, etc.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)And has a jock's sense of humor, a jock's cocky disposition, and a jock's loose relationship with rationale. Sometimes he hits 'em out of the park, but sometimes he puts on his tough guy face and his obstinate tone of voice and promptly crashes the plane into the fucking mountains.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Why is that?
Brainstormy
(2,381 posts)Sam Harris is pretty defensible. Not that he needs defending. Maybe what the op meant?