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
Origine: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 23
Origine: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. xii
Origine: 2010s, Waking Up (2014), p. 126
Sam Harris, "Can Liberalism Be Saved From Itself?" (October 7, 2014) http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/can-liberalism-be-saved-from-itself
2010s
“The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable.”
Sam Harris, "Bombing Our Illusions" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/bombing-our-illusions_b_8615.html (10 October 2005)
2000s
Origine: 2010s, Waking Up (2014), p. 82
2010s, Lying (2011)
Sam, Harris, Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks, Huffingtonpost.com, 19 March 2011, 5 May 2008 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/losing-our-spines-to-save_b_100132.html, (updated 25 May 2011)
2000s
“The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.”
Origine: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 55
Sam Harris, "Death and the Present Moment", speech at the Global Atheist Convention (April 2012) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITTxTCz4Ums&t=24m27s
2010s
Sam Harris on the Rubin Report, "Sam Harris: For Racial Profiling of Muslims?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsVtM0RFQJI.
2010s
Sam Harris at Sydney Opera House Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2012, Discussion on Free Will http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3raA1EwrI.
2010s
“You are either lucky in this department or you aren't—and you cannot make your own luck.”
Origine: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 38
Sam Harris, Drugs and the Meaning of Life http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/drugs-and-the-meaning-of-life/ (5 July 2011)
2010s
Origine: 2010s, The Moral Landscape (2010), p. 53
Sam Harris, "Death and the Present Moment", speech at the Global Atheist Convention (April 2012) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITTxTCz4Ums&t=21m21s
2010s
Sam Harris, During speech, The New Atheists (January 5, 2007) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2007/01/05/january-5-2007-the-new-atheists/3734/
2000s
Origine: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 38
Sam Harris, Real Time with Bill Maher (February 1, 2013)
2010s
“Your mind is all you truly have.”
Sam Harris, Interview with The Minimalists (19 August 2014)
2010s
Origine: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 61-62
Origine: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 55
Origine: 2010s, Waking Up (2014), p. 8
http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/honesty-the-muslim-worlds-scarcest-resource 2012-03-01 Honesty: The Muslim World’s Scarcest Resource? - SamHarris.com, accessed March 1, 2012
2010s
Sam Harris, “Religion, Terror, and Self-Transcendence.” The Ethical Culture Society and the Center for Inquiry, New York, NY, November 16, 2005 (broadcast on CSPAN-2)
2000s
Sam Harris, "The Myth of Secular Moral Chaos" (29 March 2006) http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php/articles/2863 — in Free Inquiry, Vol. 26, issue 3
2000s
Many of us spend our lives marching with open eyes toward remorse, regret, guilt, and disappointment. And nowhere do our injuries seem more casually self-inflicted, or the suffering we create more disproportionate to the needs of the moment, than in the lies we tell to other human beings. Lying is the royal road to chaos.
2010s, Lying (2011)