It's consoling to imagine that these two are mentally ill, but that's almost surely not true. Rather, they're merely articulating what millions of our neighbors fervently believe. How many people will die unnecessarily in the coming months because of this idiocy? https://t.co/1zsmOQwcKF— Sam Harris (@SamHarrisOrg) March 31, 2020
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Neighbors
In normal times I can pretend that it doesn't matter what my neighbors believe, so long as they're "neighborly." These obviously are not normal times.
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My hope is that something like this wouldn't be anymore than a way of religiously symbolizing hope in the face of a deadly threat, a figurative anticipation of victory over crisis. I'd be okay with that, and the prayers of some religious communities do have that layer of meaning. But I know there are many who believe and live as if praying will quite literally and directly end COVID-19. And it's that thinking that perhaps renews the importance and urgency of Dan Dana's The Reason Revolution.
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