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The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.

Sam Harris

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.
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Health Moral Science Social
Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow ones own advice.
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Advice Appearance Level Oneself Wisdom
Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker
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Born Eat Food God Heaven Virgin
As a man believes, so he will act.
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Act Believe Himself Man
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.
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Evidence Hall Ourselves People Power Society Strong
You don’t get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don’t know.
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Pretend Worth Yourself
You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
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Control Lost Storm Yourself
What I’m asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.
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Believe Deep Entertainment Ethics Live Spiritual
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
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Ignorance Knowledge Production Religious Scripture Secularism
Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I’m simply worried.
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Assure Myself Offend Simplicity Worry
An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion (e.g., Scientists are smart; smart people do not make mistakes; therefore, scientists do not make mistakes).
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Argument Assumption Fake Leadership Logic Mistake Science
False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
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Encouragement Fake Motivational Person Purpose
This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.
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Believe Ourselves Perfection Religion True
An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse — and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.
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Arrogance Church
It is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.
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Belief Difficult Heart Imagination Lying Mental Religious Tradition
The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn’t, we will kill you.
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Community Face Islam Kill Muslim Religion Yourself

The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.

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