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And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm.
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Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they are evil and worthy of punishment.... And yet, where suffering and death are found in abundance their causes are often deemed to be good.... This inversion of priorities not only victimizes innocent people and squanders scarce resources; it completely falsifies our ethics.
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We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas
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It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.
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It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer needlessly while alive. That so much of this suffering can be directly attributed to religion—to religious hatreds, religious wars, religious delusions and religious diversions of scarce resources—is what makes atheism a moral and intellectual necessity.
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Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.
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Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.
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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.
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April 9, 1967
(age 57)
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Samuel Benjamin "Sam" Harris is an American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist.
Known for:
Waking Up (2014)
The End of Faith (2004)
The Moral Landscape (2010)
Free Will (2012)
Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)
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