And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that the United States has much to atone for, both domestically and abroad...To produce this horrible confection at… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Because most religions offer no valid mechanism by which their core beliefs can be tested and revised, each new generation of believers… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The truth, however, is that the conflict between religion and science is unavoidable. The success of science often comes at the expense… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If there is any kernel of truth in the religions we so deplore,and they are just a carnival of errors,the truth is… — 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
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has… — 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
“It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense… — 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
“What one believes happens after death dictates much of what one believes about life, and this is why faith-based religion, in presuming… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths. — 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
The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an… — 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
“I would challenge anyone here to think of a questions upon which we once had a scientific answer, however inadequate, but for… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It is time we acknowledged that no real foundation exists within the canons of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or any of our other… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Some ... sexist evil probably predates religion and can be ascribed to our biology, but there is no question that religion promulgates… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“This is not to say that the deepest concerns of the faithful, whether moderate or extreme, are trivial or misguided. There is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The problem is that most people, most of the time, are desperate to believe ridiculous and divisive ideas for patently emotional reasons,and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“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 Image
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
