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
There is, after all, nothing more natural than rape. But no one would argue that rape is good, or compatible with a civil society, because it may have had evolutionary advantages for our ancestors. That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.
Origine: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 90-91