5 Sam Harris Quotes on Discourse

Sam Harris quotes on discourse

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

16. The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention-distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the paucity of its evidence-is really too great a monstrosity to be appreciated in all its glory. Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity-a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible.

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

43. There are other ideologies with which to expunge the last vapors of reasonableness from a society's discourse, but Islam is undoubtedly one of the best we've got.[2]

68. There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by the accommodations they have made to religious irrationality.