Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
SAM HARRISDespite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.
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I’m the Ted Bundy of string theory.
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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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People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.
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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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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.
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We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.
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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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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?
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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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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
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George Bush says he speaks to god every day, & Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.
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