Sam Harris Quotes on Criticism
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Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.[2]
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Islam, more than any other religion human beings have devised, has all the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death.[2]
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We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
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'The Problem with Atheism' (2007)[7]
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Judaism is as intrinsically divisive, as ridiculous in its literalism, and as at odds with the civilizing insights of modernity as any other religion.[2]
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To speak plainly and truthfully about the state of our world-to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran both contain mountains of life-destroying gibberish-is antithetical to tolerance as moderates currently conceive it.
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In your zeal to end the harms caused by religion, don't be driven by blind faith down a course of intolerance. Sam, in the name of reason, please turn back.