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Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now, are quite willing to die for our unjustified beliefs, and millions more, it seems, are

Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now, are quite willing to die for our unjustified beliefs, and millions more, it seems, are willing to kill for them.

Sam Harris
Faith, Religious, Criticism
Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

[I]t 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.

Sam Harris
Faith, Religious, Lying
Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.72, W. W. Norton & Company

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

Sam Harris
Faith, Would Be, World
Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

Sam Harris
Faith, People, Support
Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

Sam Harris
Faith, Science, Men
Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.226, W. W. Norton & Company

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