So, I was meant to be doing my news journals, but I actually just sort of ended up reading an newsweek, and there was an interview/debate thing in it about whether God was real. And it was Rick Warren (aka self chuckle man!) talking/debating with Sam Harris, who apparently is a very prominent person in the atheist community ( had never heard of him before).
Anyway, it was interesting, though some of it was a little beyond me. I felt like sometimes they were using a lot of buzz terms for which I am just too literal a person to completely understand. But the thing I found really interesting was how Rick Warren was always very secure and resolute in his answers. He was like hey Sam Harris, this is what I believe. And on the other side, Sammy Harris seemed to be more about making Rick Warren seem foolish, but he didn't seem secure, he didn't seem like he had enough info to make a good decision. Example1: WARREN: Sam, do you believe human beings have a spirit?
HARRIS: There are many reasons not to believe in a naive conception of a soul that kind of floats off the brain at death and goes somewhere else. But I do not know. He takes the idea that Rick Warren does believe in a sprit, and calls it a naive conception, and yet he can't actually bring himself to say, no I don't believe in a sprit. He doesn't know, he can't make a decision. Example 2: WARREN: You're more spiritual than you think. You just don't want a boss. You don't want a God who tells you what to do
HARRIS: I don't want to pretend to be certain about anything I'm not certain about. So, it seems to me that he's taken on the identity of an atheist when he's actually just still searching for answers. It's like he couldn't find God or, didn't want to find God, and so he hid instead behind his title. Or something. Just one last piece of the intereview (it's a long one) HARRIS: It is intellectually dishonest frankly, to say that you are sure that Jesus was born of a virgin.
WARREN: I say that I accept that by faith. And I think it's intellectually dishonest for you to say you have proof that it didn't happen. Here's the difference between you and me. I am open to the possibility that I am wrong in certain areas, and you are not.
HARRIS: Oh, I am absolutely open to that.
WARREN: So you are open to the possibility that you might be wrong about Jesus?
HARRIS: And Zeus, absolutely.
WARREN: And what are you doing to study that?
HARRIS: I consider it such a low probability even that I-
WARREN: A low probability? When there are 96% believers in the world? So is everybody else an idiot?
HARRIS: It is quite possible for most people to be wrong-as are most Americans who think evolution didn't occur.
WARREN: That's an arrogant statement.
HARRIS: It's an honest statement. In the article, Rick Warren spoke of a "spark that God put in you that says 'there's got to be more than make money and die.'" And it seems to me, that Sam Harris is just proving that. He has trouble saying , no, there is absolutely no such thing as God. It's like, he wants to, but just can't. Because there has to be more. | 
