Comments on: Sam Harris on Spirituality without Faith http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/blog/archives/246 It's easy when you show them how. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:39:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: B. Dewhirst http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/blog/archives/246#comment-9897 B. Dewhirst Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:44:30 +0000 http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/blog/archives/246#comment-9897 I agree that Sam Harris' article would be more accurately entitled as you've suggested, but the term 'spirituality' comes with a lot of baggage. Presumably, it was given the title it was to avoid that... as he didn't have the space to lay out his full argument. If you're interested, you ought to check out Dan Dennett's definition of spirituality from his new book (Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon) I agree that Sam Harris’ article would be more accurately entitled as you’ve suggested, but the term ’spirituality’ comes with a lot of baggage. Presumably, it was given the title it was to avoid that… as he didn’t have the space to lay out his full argument.

If you’re interested, you ought to check out Dan Dennett’s definition of spirituality from his new book (Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon)

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