@Moon @icedquinn @caekislove mere hypocrisy could be understood, but here has a rule that nobody can follow: if you're incapable of doing your own research, then you're also incapable of choosing between two experts, and incapable of applying any standard that any expert gives you because you have no means by which you can accept the standard or vet that expert. You also have no way of accepting this instruction from Sam Harris.
SH: don't think. Let other people think for you.
a passing muse: think. Don't let other people think for you.
How are you supposed to agree with Sam Harris *while* agreeing with him?
After this patched up to make any sense at all, it'd probably look something like "just believe whatever the dominant voices in society seem to believe. That way if you drown you'll at least be going down with a large ship, and not find yourself a lone nutter." Which is, at least, a pretty funny attitude for an 'atheist' to have.
Sam Harris circa 1700: don't do your own research on whether God exists, and go to church.
Sam Harris circa 2300: don't do your own research on whether God exists, and go to church.