Words like ‘God’ and ‘Allah’ must go the way of ‘Apollo’ and ‘Baal’ or they will unmake our world.
SAM HARRISWe 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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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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You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
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It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.
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Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.
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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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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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We are all prisoners of our thoughts.
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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 core of science is not a mathematical modeling–it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.
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Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn’t care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.
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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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The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.
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Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the the Bible is merely a collection of imperfect books written by highly fallible human beings.
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As a man believes, so he will act.
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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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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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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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You don’t get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don’t know.
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How we pay attention to the present moment…determin es the character of our experience and…the quality of our lives.
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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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We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself.
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It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.
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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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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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You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
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Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.
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