Sam Harris and others on 9/11

Sam Harris came into the spotlight with his works like Letter to a Christian Nation continuing to his newer work The Moral Landscape. Now, along with Hitchens, Dennet and Dawkins, Harris is considered one of the “four horsemen of atheism.” Harris has repeatedly spoken about why he began to be so critical about religion in such an open and significant way, and Harris has consistently responded with a discussion of 9/11. So, it is particularly meaningful that he made a special post on his blog for 9/11:

Ten years have passed since a group of mostly educated and middle-class men decided to obliterate themselves, along with three thousand innocents, to gain entrance to an imaginary Paradise. Continue reading…