"I Know What it Says, What Does it Mean ?" - An Answer to Sam Harris and Movement Atheism

"I Know What it Says , What Does it Mean ?"

Sam Harris can't seem to comprehend the distinction between what is True and What is Factual.

Between what is Story (Mythos) and what is (or what purports to be) History (Historia - "I, Herodotus of Helicarnassas, am here setting forth forth MY History, that Time may not draw the colur from what Man has brought into being....")

Religious Stories, Folklore  and Myths  Were Never/Are Not/Will Not Ever be intented to provide a  paleo-scientific, rational Factual Description for the Phenomenon of Life and Creation - not ever, in any culture (save for the most baroque and self-deluded  elites and the administrative, managerial class beholden to them) - their fuction is to Explain these things in such a way as to render them Understandable to both The individual within a particular Community, and to The Community itself, by virtue of the establishment of Narrative and Continuity, mediated according to a Higher, SupraHuman, Supernatural Hierarchy and Codes of Law


he Atheists always alwaya mis-state or misunderstand, or at any rate habitually mischaracterise the problem with rejecting an externally imposed and mediated system of Eternal Values, why that implies a moral abscess or ethical vaccuum in their doctrinal beliefs, by choosing not to believe in the teachings of their native tradition -

Nobody needs the instruction of a system mythic moral to educate them why not commit murder (except for psychopaths, who will ignore the lesson anyway, provided circumstances exist sufficient to convince them they will not likely get caught) - Human Beings are hardwired not to kill other human beings in almost every instance, and to take every alternative measure possible not to have to take human life, even up to the point where the indiviual's own life is placed in danger by their failure to murder (unless/until that protection has been bypassed or systematically dismantled over an extended period of time).


What Human Beings have to be taught is Why They Ought Not Allow Another Person to Suffer and Die, if they have the power to act and relieve them of at least some measure of their agonies, when it is clearly not necessary for them to suffer so.