Two comments on an Article by Sam Harris at Newsweek

Commenting Sam Harris article "The empty wager" at the online version of Newsweek:
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/sam_harris/2007/04/the_cost_of_betting_on_faith.html

I wrote the following:


Sam Harris is, together with Richard Dawkins and a little bunch of first line scientific writers, one of the few that is confronting the madness of a belief structure that has, systematically and inexorably, led to innumerable collective catastrophes. He is worried, very much so, and with outstanding reason. Religious belief as has been preserved by organized religions, is a calamity that has to be confronted by rational minds all over the world. The clash between those beliefs and super-advanced technology will provoke further holocausts, poisoning, in way to that final destiny, our daily lives in every possible manner. 100% support to Dr. Harris work.


After posting my initial comment, I took a look to other commentators. I think that many rationally prone people would agree with me, and I most certainly do not want to offend any person that feels otherwise, but each time somebody defends his or her faith on account of a man or god, whose accountability rests on the far past (like Buddha, Jesus, or whoever) saying I am a Buddhist, or I am a Christian, etc, I cannot help but think in the following comparison, I imagine a person two thousands years from now, proclaiming: I am a Mickey Mouseian, or a Donald Duckian...
Can just we grasp whatever we can from God HERE AND NOW without resorting to some past, improvable and alien experience?

Manuel Gerardo Monasterio