--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "coshlnx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.tinyurl.com/2835ty
Much better. I like his last question to Sullivan. This rap also pretty much dispatches the speculation that he's a closet Buddhist. One quote I liked: "Do you really think that the 23rd century will dawn, with unimaginably powerful technology having spread to every corner of the earth, and our thinking will still be governed by sectarian religious certainties?" I don't know how Sullivan will answer this question, but I do so with a resounding "Yes." As Harris points out, religion is an *emotional* thing. People in the 23rd century will be just like the people in this century, *claiming* that they believe the things they believe as the result of some kind of rational deduc- tion (like Pascal's wager), but IMO they're not being honest -- with those they're arguing with, or with themselves. They believe these things because they need the emotional hit they get from them. I don't see that changing in human nature -- in two centuries or twenty.
