Sam Harris Giving Quotations

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

We do not respect people's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. If my reasons are good enough for believing what I believe, you will helplessly believe what I believe. I will give you my reasons and reasons are contagious. That is what it is to be a rational human being.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

Countries with high levels of atheism are . . . the most charitable both in terms of the percentage of their wealth they devote to social welfare programs and the percentage they give in aid to the developing world.