My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to... →
Sam Harris
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance.... →
To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves... →
It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or... →
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious... →
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants... →
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious... →
A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.
David Harsanyi