What is wrong with Sam Harris?

He recently appeared on the British podcast "TRIGGERnometry" and made the following comment:

Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement, I would not have cared

To a sane person, this is an outrageous statement to make. I'm a fan of TRIGGERnometry and have listened to the whole podcast with Harris so I'm aware that he was elaborating on his perspective of Trump when he made this comment, but it's still a really unhinged thing to say and he was being absolutely serious when he said it. I have no idea why anyone would follow this guy or consider him credible in any way because there is something demonstrably wrong with him. He is clearly a troll and will do and say anything to get attention (he always has), but I actually think he is mentally ill as well.

He spent years criticizing Christians, which endeared him to the Left...then when that got boring to people and the novelty wore off he started criticizing Islam, and to an obsessive degree. Although this brought him attention, it also isolated him from many liberals. Now, he's decided to go after Trump and say the most absurd things about him because he wants to regain recognition from the Left and ingratiate himself with them again.

He really is pathetic.

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BohemianBabe · M

He spent years criticizing Christians, which endeared him to the Left...then when that got boring to people and the novelty wore off he started criticizing Islam, and to an obsessive degree. Although this brought him attention, it also isolated him from many liberals

This is a big misconception. Leftists were fine with him criticizing Christianity and Islam. What we didn't like was him being a religion reductionist when it came it Islam. He would say things like, Palestine is the way it is because of Islam, while ignoring the role that Israel plays. He'd also say only Muslim communities are still living in the Middle Ages, even though there are also Christian countries where they still stone gays and "witches" to death. And within America, we have plenty of Evangelicals that are still living in the Middle Ages.

And Liberals generally don't like Anti-Theism because Liberals are stupid.