A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and responsibility in our society. Neither will a person who believes that the holocaust was a hoax. But people who believe equally irrational things about God and the bible are now running our country. This is genuinely terrifying.
Sam HarrisThe point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.
Sam HarrisJust as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.
Sam HarrisThe freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.
Sam Harris