Quote #9

The danger of religious faith is that it allows otherwise normal human beings to reap the fruits of madness and consider them holy.[2]

More from Sam Harris

  1. Most religions have merely canonized a few products of ancient ignorance and derangement and passed them down to us as though they were pri…
  2. A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything else in a person's life.[2]
  3. 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 tra…
  4. Beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potentia.[2]
  5. It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your t…
  6. To believe that God exists is to believe that I stand in some relation to his existence such that his existence is itself the reason for my…
  7. We are no more free to believe whatever we want about God than we are free to adopt unjustified beliefs about science or history, or free t…
  8. Nothing is more sacred than the facts.

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