ReformedChristian
Puritan Board Freshman
If you are familiar with Sam Harris, he is one of the leading spokesman for the New Atheism, along with Dawkins, Dennett, and the late Christopher Hitchens. Sam Harris' worldview on morality and ethics hinges on a philosophy known as Scientism, which is the idea that all that is meaningful can be reduced to the scientific method.
In this work, Mcdurmon exposes Harris' claim that believe in God is the sole foundation for all societies ill wills. He argues that rather then believe in God, it is man's abuse of power, especially government that has been one of the leading causes for humanities problems, which Nietzsche called the "Will To Power".
In turn, Harris makes the claim that Atheism cannot be blamed for Communism. Mcdurmon shows that such an idea is foolishness in that you cannot separate a person from their ideas, rather its how one consistently carries out their worldview, in other words ideas have consequences. Unlike Harris, Mcdurmon quotes the writings of Trosky, Engels, Marx and Mao who were willing to take their ideas to their materialism and Scentism to its logical conclusion.
Mcdurmon is also aware that Atheists are fond of making the claim that Secular Countries are more moral then religious ones, he goes on to state that what they fail to take into account is there are various factors that contribute to this.One it is from borrowing from the Christian Worldview, for example the United Nations builds its vision for peace on the Biblical Scripture from Isaiah 2:4 while jetting God from the process and instead on man's own autonomy, second it does not take into account social and economic factors which again is built on the Christian Worldview.
Overall Harris' philosophy cannot escape the Christian worldview no matter how hard he tries, he should be more honest in his Atheism as the previous Atheists before him. Even having read Modern Atheists such as Joel Marks, Alex Rosenberg and David Benatar, they are are honest enough to admit that apart from God there is no objective morality. Harris if he is honest should either admit that like Sartre there is no meaning and thus live the delusion that there is meaning by what he gives it, or be honest as with many other historical and modern atheism and adapt Nihilism which is that there is no meaning at all.
In this work, Mcdurmon exposes Harris' claim that believe in God is the sole foundation for all societies ill wills. He argues that rather then believe in God, it is man's abuse of power, especially government that has been one of the leading causes for humanities problems, which Nietzsche called the "Will To Power".
In turn, Harris makes the claim that Atheism cannot be blamed for Communism. Mcdurmon shows that such an idea is foolishness in that you cannot separate a person from their ideas, rather its how one consistently carries out their worldview, in other words ideas have consequences. Unlike Harris, Mcdurmon quotes the writings of Trosky, Engels, Marx and Mao who were willing to take their ideas to their materialism and Scentism to its logical conclusion.
Mcdurmon is also aware that Atheists are fond of making the claim that Secular Countries are more moral then religious ones, he goes on to state that what they fail to take into account is there are various factors that contribute to this.One it is from borrowing from the Christian Worldview, for example the United Nations builds its vision for peace on the Biblical Scripture from Isaiah 2:4 while jetting God from the process and instead on man's own autonomy, second it does not take into account social and economic factors which again is built on the Christian Worldview.
Overall Harris' philosophy cannot escape the Christian worldview no matter how hard he tries, he should be more honest in his Atheism as the previous Atheists before him. Even having read Modern Atheists such as Joel Marks, Alex Rosenberg and David Benatar, they are are honest enough to admit that apart from God there is no objective morality. Harris if he is honest should either admit that like Sartre there is no meaning and thus live the delusion that there is meaning by what he gives it, or be honest as with many other historical and modern atheism and adapt Nihilism which is that there is no meaning at all.
