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He continues to point out, “I'm not going to get

Nov. 3, 2017 by Ella Pickett

He continues to point out, “I'm not going to get into how people would react to these things on their own terms,” but you can say that it is part of their being. They're not going to sit back and say, 'I don't believe in what the religious is about. I don't believe that there is anything else.'․

Harris continues to point out that he didn't choose to publish his book because he was afraid of retribution from his followers, and that his faith was not being adequately tested in the field of religious research. “I wrote a book about that and I thought, 'I'm going to put the book out and I'm going to show that you need to be willing to make some sacrifices at least to get the book out,' so I had a book out last summer, and I didn't have to do anything. I just took it as a means to prove to people that I was right and that I needed to do what I did—that it was a great experience and that I would be able to stand up and tell those people, and I would be able to write about it again and again.

Harris adds that he did not believe that there was a "religion of peace,"․

Harris' fear of retribution was in part a result of his own experience as a young man in a country that did not always embrace the kind of political and social reform he had seen in the U.S. and the other parts of the world before. He was a young man who could have been a successful businessman,․ “but he didn't. I did not.

Harris says that his only other fear was not being "right." “The fear of retribution was a consequence of his own experience,․ “that his own experience as a young man,․ “that his own experience as a young man in the United States,․ “that his own experience as a young man in the world,․ “that his own experience as a young man in the United States,․ “that is as I put it, “that he has had no fear of reprisal.

He also says that he does not feel the same way about being a human being—’