We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.
Sam HarrisTags: ethics belief religion atheism humanism spirituality agnosticism
The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
Sam HarrisTags: ethics belief religion atheism humanism spirituality agnosticism
Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.
Sam HarrisTags: ethics belief religion atheism humanism spirituality agnosticism
Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name. The consciousness that animates us is itself central to this mystery and ground for any experience we may wish to call "spiritual." No myth needs to be embraced for us to commune with the profundity of our circumstance. No personal God need be worshipped for us to live in awe at the beauty and immensity of creation. No tribal fictions need be rehearsed for us to realize, one fine day, that we do, in fact, love our neighbors, that our happiness is inextricable from their own, and that our interdependence demands that people everywhere be given the opportunity to flourish. The days of our religious identities are clearly numbered. Whether the days of civilization itself are numbered would seem to depend, rather too much, on how soon we realize this.
Sam HarrisFaith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident
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 HarrisTags: morality christian muslim
It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This often produces an ugly marriage of confidence and ignorance that is very difficult to correct for.
Sam HarrisTags: moral
Imagine what it would be like for our descendants to experience the fall of civilization. Imagine failures of reasonableness so total that our largest bombs finally fall upon our largest cities in defense of our religious differences. What would it be like for the unlucky survivors of such a holocaust to look back upon the hurtling career of human stupidity that led them over the precipice? A view from the end of the world would surely find that the six billion of us currently alive did much to pave the way to the Apocalypse.
Sam HarrisTags: the-end-of-faith-epilogue
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
Sam HarrisTags: the-end-of-faith-epilogue
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the only universal framework for moral wisdom. As a result, the most powerful societies on early spend their time debating issues like gay marriage when they should be focused on problems like nuclear proliferation, genocide, energy security, climate change, poverty, and failing schools.
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