Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American philosopher, neuroscientist, author, and podcast host. His work touches on a range of topics, includingrationality, religion, ethics, free will, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, philossophy of mind, politics, terrorism, and artificial interlligence. Harris came to prominence for his critisism of religion, and is known as one of the “Four Horsemen” of New Atheism, along with Richard Dawkins, Christoper Hitchens, and Daniel Bennett. - Wikipedia
Sam Harris on Faith
If you are right to believe that religious faith offers the only real basis for morality, then atheists should be less moral than believers. In fact, they should be utterly immoral. Are they? Do members of atheist organizations in the United States commit more than their fair share of violent crimes? Do the members of the National Academy of Sciences, 93 percent of whom do not accept the idea of God, lie and cheat and steal with abandon? We can be reasonably confident that these groups are at least as well behaved as the general population. And yet, atheists are the most reviled minority in the United States. - Sam Harris
It is time that we admit that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail. - Sam Harris
Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now, are quite willing to die for our unjustified beliefs, and millions more, it seems, are willing to kill for them. - Sam Harris
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