this is a lecture based on Sams first book, in 2005. before i start careening into blasphemy, i want to put something to the fore, because youre gonna lose sight of it, i guarantee you. i take ethics and spirituality very seriously. i think ethics and spirituality are the only game in town, ultimately. they lie at the core of whats most beautiful, profound, and necessary in our circumstance as human beings. what im asking you to entertain, is that there is nothing that we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spritual lives. theres nothing that we need to believe on insufficient evidence to invoke the power of ritual, to build beautiful sanctuaries, to come together as communitees. Now, were all familiar with this notion that you should respect another persons religious beliefs. your neighbor has the right to believe whatever he wants to about god, or the moral structure to this universe, or what happens after death. and you should respect these beliefs, merely because he believes them. does this sound strange to anybody? where else do we play by these rules?
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:41:57 +0000
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