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Morality is one of the greatest challenges for modernity.

Religion does not teach grief, Harris says.

Every benign religion, every religion that’s actually helping somebody sometimes could be functioning like a placebo. It could be totally barren of content and still useful in certain circumstances.

Secular fundamentalism is a play on words.

Fighting ignorance.

We are misled by the very term “religion,” argues Sam Harris. Religion was simply the discourse humans used when all causes in the universe were opaque.

Converging on a common project in a non-divisive, something religion does infrequently.

Harris believes that certainty is a false goal.

Harris believes faith is healthy and necessary.

9/11 sparked Harris’s interest in religion, and his journey to atheism.

Making fatherhood easier.

“Are you happy?” is a good place to start, reflects Jason Kottke.

People are so much more connected than they used to be.

Kottke is a big Errol Morris fan.

Kottke says he is a pessimistic optimist.

Kottke wants the political process to change.

Politics are still shut off from reality, Kottke says.

They will, Kottke says, but they’ll just be different.

Go and explore, Kottke says.

Encouraging the dilettantes is one unfortunate side effect of the information age.

Internet advertising presents many opportunities for trial and error, Kottke says.

Has social networking changed our social norms?

Kottke reads a lot of blogs. A lot.

Kottke.org is the long evolution of a blog.

Kottke started tinkering with primitive computers when he was still a kid.

The intense engagement of blogging.

A Midwestern kid who was a big-city kid at heart.

Aslan challenges the West and Muslims to define this clash so that we can see that we are not all that different.

The West should leave the Muslims alone and allow them to create their own societies, of which they are perfectly capable.

Religion is, first and foremost, a social phenomenon.