Re: Sam Harris
Reply #29 - March 30, 2011, 08:59 PM
I watch his first video. And I don't think he is right,,,,on what he said that education doesn't play a role in how much someone believes or is influenced by a religion...The education does play a role, I believe. The society (influences, much or little) and the family enviroment/ influences and all sort of enviroments that someone experiences plays a role, in my opinion, actually really much during very young age. And that is proved by looking into history and noticing the development of the way of thinking and morality of people during different periods. Many well educated people tend to finally desert a religion, because they tend to think and analyze to finally realized its errors or at list if they keep their faith, they don't take everything what the religion says literally (specially if its bad) and take action over it , and that is a person who is really educated, in my opinion, that is why in the modern societies people, for example, became muslims and though muslims claim that if someone is muslim they would be so convince of their faith, many of these people who had better educations didn't find it reasonable and deserted it. Because in a deserted way back society, where there is no much information handy, or people don't have facilities to learn, like libraries and internet, tv, and nothing on the streets, nowhere...due to this lack of information the mind will not be estimulated, cos the unconcious mind registers all informations, even though we not concious about them, and that has an effect in the way we think. Even a poster in the street that we ignore as we pass by, what ever information provides, it would be acquired by the uncouncious mind (database) and will have an influence on us, that might be profitable or not...