The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
SAM HARRISYou are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
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Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the false to achieve primacy over the facts.
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The perpetrators of the Inquisition – the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions – were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God – popes, bishops, friars, and priests.
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I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
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Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
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The problem with religion, because it’s been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.
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How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.
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The power of psychedelics is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
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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.
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When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we’re told that? God is mysterious.
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The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.
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Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.
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