Jews, Christians and Muslims claim that their scriptures are so prescient of humanity's needs that they could only have been written under the direction of an omniscient deity. An atheist is simply a person who has considered this claim, read the books and found the claim to be ridiculous. One doesn't have to take anything on faith, or be otherwise dogmatic, to reject unjustified religious beliefs. As the historian Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-71) once said: "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
Origine: Da 10 myths - and 10 truths - about atheism http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-harris24dec24,0,3994298.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail, LA Times.it, 24 dicembre 2006.
Sam Harris frasi celebri
Origine: George Orwell, “Reflection on Gandhi”, in “The Oxford Book Essay”, s cura di J. Gross, Oxford University Press, 1949, p. 506
Origine: La fine della fede, p. 173
Lettera a una nazione cristiana
Lettera a una nazione cristiana
Sam Harris: Frasi in inglese
Sam Harris, "Is the Foundation of Morality Natural or Supernatural? – William Lane Craig vs. Sam Harris http://www.reasonablefaith.org/is-the-foundation-of-morality-natural-or-supernatural-the-craig-harris, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States – April 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk7jHJRSzhM&t=1m10s
2010s
“Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.”
2000s, The End of Faith (2004)
Origine: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Origine: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Origine: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 32
“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”
Origine: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 14
“A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.”
Origine: Free Will
Origine: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”
Free Will
Variante: You can do what you decide to do—but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
“Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.”
Origine: 2010s, The Moral Landscape (2010), p. 6
Origine: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
Origine: Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Origine: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Origine: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Sam Harris - http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=sharris_26_3 The Myth of Secular Moral Chaos - The Council for Secular Humanism https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Quotations_on_Islam_from_Notable_Non-Muslims
2010s