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We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

Sam Harris

Atheist, Atheism, Logical

The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word all the time, and I think behind it lurk some really extraordinary taboos and confusions. What I want to argue tonight is that how we talk about belief- how we fail to criticize or criticize the beliefs of others, has more importance to us personally, more consequence to us personally and to civilization than perhaps anything else that is in our power to influence.

Sam Harris

Atheist, Believe, Mean

Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.

Sam Harris

Atheist, Believe, Connections

"The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason". Book by Sam Harris, 2004.

If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least, we are not sure whether or not God wrote some of our books, then we need only count the days to Armageddon-because God has given us far many more reasons to kill one another than to turn the other cheek.

Sam Harris

Atheist, Book, Way

Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company