“The great religions are,” he writes, “sources of ceaseless and unnecessary suffering. They are impediments to the grasp of reality needed to solve most social problems in the real world.” Mr. Wilson, who was born in Birmingham, Ala., and who was raised as a Southern Baptist, puts it baldly about humanity’s future: “Faith is the one thing that makes otherwise good people do bad things.” Oh, my great niece is gonna love this, 1st year college freshman and reading a whole new world of nonfiction writers including Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins. E.O. Wilson is simply the best: an 85 year old scientist/philosopher originally from AL : ) nytimes/2014/10/10/books/edward-o-wilsons-the-meaning-of-human-existence.html?_r=0
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