Dr. Sam Harris
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somewhere around the 14th century, the 15th century, it was expected that you could be killed for thought crimes by the religious orthodoxy that governed everything.
Now, we have fought a very difficult battle against that kind of theocracy in the West, and we have a lot to show for it.
In a Christian context,
You know, burning people alive for being gay or being a witch, as though witches existed, or being a blasphemer, et cetera, that just doesn't happen anymore.
I mean, you know, it doesn't.
it's capable of happening in a few contexts in sub-Saharan Africa among Christians, but generally speaking, that problem is behind us.
We can't say that under Islam, right?
Islam has not made the same kind of progress we have in modernizing, and that's because it simply hasn't had to.
It's been sheltered from modernity for
for many centuries.
And so I just view the growth of secularism in America
as just a furthering of the process of just certain certain certainties become untenable, you know, once you get battered by more facts and more argument and better evidence and a greater understanding of science, et cetera.
I mean, evolution is, you know, in America, evolution is a topic that has been quite, you know, controversial in the last quarter century, but less and less so.
I mean, you can't with a straight face
unless you're a moron like Tucker Carlson, deny the reality of evolution when someone's got a camera on you.
And it's just, I mean, that's the, I don't, again, this is a unidirectional phenomenon.
It's not like we're seeing
We're only seeing things that were once explained by religion get better and better explained by science and secular rationality.
It doesn't run the other direction.
I can list a hundred things about which religious authority was the only authority and now we understand these things scientifically.
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