If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?
SAM HARRISIslam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.
More Sam Harris Quotes
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You don’t get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don’t know.
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We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
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Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
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You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
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Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.
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It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potential.
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It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.
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It’s simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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We are all prisoners of our thoughts.
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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 problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.
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We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don’t have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.
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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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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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