"Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally……" — Sam Harris
"Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion."
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146 Quotes by Sam Harris
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could…
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious…
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken…
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its…
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and…
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions,…
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is…
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception…
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political…
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and…
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin…
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You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not…
— Annie Besant
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Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have…
— Eric Alterman
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Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation.
— Pratibha Patil
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Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of…
— John Stott
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It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of…
— Adolf Hitler
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While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity…
— Adolf Hitler
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
— Edward Abbey
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
— Isaac Asimov
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Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see…
— John Fowles
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The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous,…
— Dean Koontz
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