It’s kind of a straw man, I think. I don’t think Harris really has his finger on the pulse of what really happens in a church. From what I’ve seen it’s not other’s misfortune, but rather ones own misfortune (or more often, good fortune) you hear of when folks talk about God’s plans. It’s forbidden to judge others in this way (judge not...) and people generally don’t. The book of Job is a common OT favorite and it’s moral is that misfortune is not always earned.

1. If you think you’re the only thing, who are you going to express that to?

2. The profound thing is you have to be ok with that by yourself.

My middle school in Washington State had it. It was too short so you couldn’t really cook anything good. We did pizza one day and skipped most of the next class. That was a good time.

So in part 5, what creates time?
In part 6, why must time be real?
Is it real in a materialistic sense or just a subjective sense? I can understand that time is self evident, but is it a phenomenon or a noumenon?

Seems right, and the success of relativity might bolster the argument. But I don’t think you sufficiently defined “base reality”. Is it just a classification of everything taken together? Can base reality be experienced phenomenalogically (by us or god?) or is it just a way of explaining things?

Also, must infinities necessarily be avoided? Spinoza took the existence of infinity as one of his fundamental assumptions. My own point of view on this is that infinities do exist, but by definition cannot be grasped all at once and therefore time MUST exist.