The Bible, it seems certain, was the work of sand-strewn men and women who thought the earth was flat and for whom a wheelbarrow would have been a breathtaking example of emerging technology.Sam Harris
When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.Sam Harris
The acceptance of such a transparently irrational belief, however, requires an almost heroic willingness to disregard the dictates of reason. But it is precisely such willingness that is at the core of religious faith.Sam Harris
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.Sam Harris
If you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe it to yourself to read some other scriptures.Sam Harris
God - whoever he is - had surely not singled out the Jews; and Christianity - as soon as it became a state religion - inaugurated a savage and desultory slaughter of our ancestors.Sam Harris
If you can understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.Sam Harris
Your qualms about embryonic stem cell research are similarly obscene. Here are the facts: Stem cell research is one of the most promising developments in the last century of medicine.Sam Harris
It is not enough that Jesus was a man who transformed himself to the point that the divine light of God, the same light that would have been in us all if we hadn't blasphemed, shone through him.Sam Harris
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.Sam Harris