Showing posts with label Sam Harris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sam Harris. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

How to talk to a Christian

"If you wake up tomorrow morning and think that saying a few Latin words over your pancakes will turn them into the body of Elvis Presley you're said to be out of your mind. If you think the same thing about a cracker and the body of Jesus you're just a Catholic."

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Evidence & logic

And another problem arises in theological arguments when someone's notion of what constitutes evidence fall far short of your own . . . . 

Saturday, 21 May 2011

Is Christian morality psychopathic?

"The true horror of religion is that it allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions what only lunatics could believe on their own."

Friday, 7 August 2009

There is No God (And You Know It)


Another splendid polemic from Sam Harris. This time from October 2005. Here are a couple of quotations from it:-

"Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma"

"Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious"