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 HarrisDeath is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we're left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.
Sam HarrisIt is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Sam HarrisWe are free to burn the Qurโan or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.
Sam Harris