Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Any person who lies awake at night worrying about the private pleasures of other consenting adults has more than just too much… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“When was the last time that someone was criticized for not "respecting" another person's unfounded beliefs about physics or history? The same… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“In places where scholars can still be stoned to death for doubting the veracity of the Koran, Gould's notion of a "loving… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“In the best case, faith leaves otherwise well-intentioned people incapable of thinking rationally about many of their deepest concerns; at worst, it… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“In adaptive terms, belief has been extraordinarily useful. It is, after all, by believing various propositions about the world that we predict… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Imagine that we could revive a well-educated Christian of the fourteenth century. The man would prove to be a total ignoramus, except… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The doors leading out of scriptural literalism do not open from the inside. The moderation we see among nonfundamentalists is not some… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic—in fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“There seems, however, to be a problem with some of our more cherished beliefs about the world: they are leading us, inexorably,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation;… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“...religious moderates are themselves the bearers of a terrible dogma: they imagine that the path to peace will be paved once each… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It should go without saying that these rival belief systems [Judaism, Islam, Christianity] are all equally uncontaminated by evidence.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“While religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction, it is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“How is it that, in this one area of our lives [religion], we have convinced ourselves that our beliefs about the world… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Criticizing a person’s ideas about God and the afterlife is thought to be impolitic in a way that criticizing his ideas about… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world, because their beliefs provide the context in which… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It is time we recognized that the only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-minded… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Certain beliefs place their adherents beyond the reach of every peaceful means of persuasion, while inspiring them to commit acts of extraordinary… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in the modern… — Sam Harris Copy Share
There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by… — Sam Harris Copy Share
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends… — Sam Harris Copy Share
“Your principal concern appears to be that the Creator of the universe will take offense at something people do while naked. This prudery of… — Sam Harris Copy Share
“As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never… — Sam Harris Copy Share
About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are… — Sam Harris Copy Share
“If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist… — Sam Harris Copy Share
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or… — Sam Harris Copy Share
The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second… — Sam Harris Copy Share
“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.” — Sam Harris Copy Share
“Whether or not one likes Huntington's formulation, one thing is clear: the evil that has finally reached our shores is not merely the evil… — Sam Harris Copy Share
Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have… — Sam Harris Copy Share
The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology,… — Sam Harris Copy Share
“What could possibly cause billions of human beings to reconsider their religious beliefs? And yet, it is obvious that an utter revolution in our… — Sam Harris Copy Share
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