Harris and Eastern Religions
Point of Legends and Religion?
This week you have two options. Choose one only.
Option #1
The Point of the Legends
The details of Gautama’s life are entirely enshrouded in legend, and legend characteristically heavy with tendentious interpretation. Thus, for instance, the Four Passing Sights are rather spectacular, if somewhat obvious interpolations of doctrine. Similarly one might wonder the significance of the Gautama’s activities between the Great Going Forth and the Awakening. What’s the point, would you say?
Option #2
Harris and Eastern Religions
Apparently Sam Harris’ critique of religion is meant to be more harshly directed toward Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, than against Hinduism and Buddhism, true? How do you account for the fact that he seems so much more sympathetic to those “Eastern” religions, than to the great ‘Western” monotheisms?
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Harris believes that religions which are faith-based are normally focused on terrible ideas and that they are intended for bad reasons which usually leads to terrible behavior. Harris does not seem to buy the whole idea of having an omnipresent being that is found in most of the Western monotheisms, for example, in Christianity. Harris believes that people who believe in…
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