“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
“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 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
“Many religious moderates have taken the apparent high road of pluralism, asserting the equal validity of all faiths, but in doing so… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialog with God. If he said… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The search for comfort at the expense of truth has never been a motive for religious belief, since all creeds are chock-full… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Finding ourselves in a universe that seems bent on destroying us, we quickly discover, both as individuals and as societies, that it… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Many religious moderates have taken the apparent high road of pluralism, asserting the equal validity of all faiths, but in doing so… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If religious war is ever to become unthinkable for us, in the way that slavery and cannibalism seem poised to, it will… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Incompatible religious doctrines have balkanized our world into separate moral communities, and these divisions have become a continuous source of bloodshed. Indeed,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Incompatible religious doctrines have Balkanised our world and these divisions have become a continuous source of bloodshed. Indeed, religion is as much… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“For anyone with eyes to see, there can be no doubt that religious faith remains a perpetual source of human conflict. Religion… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“This is not (as you have charged) to paint religion with a broad brush. I am very quick to distinguish gradations of… — 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
“Some pleasures are intrinsically ethical—feelings like love, gratitude, devotion, and compassion. To inhabit these states of mind is, by definition, to be… — 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
The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“ONE OF THE most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal… — 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
“It should go without saying that these rival belief systems [Judaism, Islam, Christianity] are all equally uncontaminated by evidence.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its problems. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us unwilling to criticize ideas that are increasingly maladaptive and patently ridiculous.” — 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
It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share… — 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
“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
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Whatever their imagined source, the doctrines of modern religions are no more tenable than those which, for lack of adherents, were cast… — 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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