"All I’m arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there’s no taboo against criticizing bad id...
Theology is ignorance with wings.
More Sam Harris quotes
"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...
"It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are ge...
"Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. ...
"When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impos...
"Christians.....expend more “moral” energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide.
"Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.
"Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly Muslim societies for racist reasons. But if you can...
"What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
"We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.
"The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, i...
"People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.
"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 ...
"If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least, we are not sure whether or not God wrote some of our...
"There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.