Faith and reason Quote by Sam Harris

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

— Sam Harris

“Religious moderation, insofar as it represents an attempt to hold on to what is still serviceable in orthodox religion, closes the door to more…

— Sam Harris

“Religious moderation springs from the fact that even the least educated person among us simply knows more about certain matters than anyone did two…

— Sam Harris

“Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world, because their beliefs provide the context in which scriptural literalism…

— Sam Harris

Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this…

— Sam Harris

The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious…

— Sam Harris

As mainstream religious leaders of different faiths get together, it strengthens the voice of moderation.

— Ibrahim Hooper

“All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic…

— Jon Krakauer

“...religious moderates are themselves the bearers of a terrible dogma: they imagine that the path to peace will be paved once each of us…

— Sam Harris

True faith, real and pure faith, cannot be practiced in moderation.

— Steve Arterburn

“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

“Authoritarianism has no place in religion. If you want to have true religion in your heart, then burn the scriptures and go out in…

— Abhijit Naskar