8 Sam Harris Quotes on Critique

Sam Harris quotes on critique

7. 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 traditions.[2]

15. Faith is what credulity becomes when it finally achieves escape velocity from the constraints of terrestrial discourse.[2]

18. Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.[2]

20. Faith is rather like a rhinoceros, in fact: it won't do much in the way of real work for you, and yet at close quarters it will make spectacular claims upon your attention.[2]

21. It is imperative that we begin speaking plainly about the absurdity of most of our religious beliefs.[2]

50. 'The Problem with Atheism' (2007)[7]

81. Unreason is now ascendant in the United States-in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.

98. Mr. Harris argues cogently, pithily, wittily, passionately, that religious 'faith' is leading humanity straight to a very earthly hell.