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Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by god or that specific software was coded by him. imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of star wars or windows 98. could anything -- anything -- be more ridiculous? and yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in.
-Sam Harris
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Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by god or that specific software was coded by him. imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of star wars or windows 98. could anything -- anything -- be more ridiculous? and yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in.
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