Evict Sam Harris from the "reality-based community"

Inside the magical thinking of a Guantanamo Bay fan:

I recently chatted with bestselling atheist author and waterboarding enthusiast Sam Harris, then wrote a piece on his work for AlterNet. In our chat, his gusto for smearing fake menstrual blood on Muslim prisoners was disarming, as was the credence he loans theories of ESP and reincarnation.

In times like these, when empirical reason itself is attacked by a White House whose aides believe, like New Age mystics, in "creating your own reality," the End Of Faith author has written a pious monument to our fearful and superstitious times. Widely embraced by progressives, his work offers a jarring combination of Dennis Prager-ish Islamophobia, Fox News arguments for torture as well as Eastern religion, awkwardly linked with crowd-pleasing attacks on Christianity.

Remember when Condi Rice said we should punish France and ignore Germany? Author Sam Harris says we should mock Christians and torture Muslims. In a recent interview, he also discussed the data he finds compelling for the investigation of various miracles, including reincarnation, speaking in tongues and forcing captive Arabs to reveal the secrets of the Cosmos.

He was especially keen on a phenonemon known as "xenoglossy." That’s when people suddenly, without having studied a particular language, start to...

גוּט טַק אִים בְּטַגְֿא שְ וַיר דִּיש מַחֲזֹור אִין בֵּיתֿ הַכְּנֶסֶתֿ טְרַגְֿא...

...Sorry, xenoglossy acting up. Anyway, I found The End Of Faith’s attack on "faith," which encourages the reader to junk busted old Jesus and instead meditate on Eastern notions of unity, to be a twist on the very Christian evangelism Harris opposes, in which proselytizers claim that Christianity isn’t a religion because it’s authentic — competing "religions" are about this-and-that, whereas the Christian product alone offers a specific salvation bonus.

"Oh, we hate organized religion too," they say. "That’s why we follow Jesus."