Below are some choice quotes by Sam Harris (and a couple about Sam Harris).
This post may grow if and when I can manage to stomach tainting my mind by calling into remembrance the vast amounts of Sam Harris’ bio-chemically educed brain secretions expressed as writing that I have read or if anyone places some good quotes into the comments section.
About Sam Harris:
Sam Harris is so superlatively wrong that it will require the development of esoteric mathematics operating simultaneously in multiple dimensions to fully comprehend the orders of magnitude of his wrongness.1
Under pressure, Harris reveals ideological biases that will trouble some readers_He seems to loathe Islam with a fury the more surprising because he doesn’t seem to know much about it. (His quotes on the subject stem mostly from the works of Bernard Lewis and a university Web site.)2
By Sam Harris:
If I could wave a magic wand and get rid of either rape or religion, Harris explains, I would not hesitate to get rid of religion.3
there’s nothing more natural than rape. Human beings rape, chimpanzees rape, orangutans rape, rape clearly is part of an evolutionary strategy to get your genes into the next generation if you’re a male. You can’t move from that Darwinian fact about us to defend rape as a good practice. I mean no-one would be tempted to do that; we have transcended that part of our evolutionary history in repudiating it.4
Where are the women’s rights groups?
you can get a rationale for killing people for adultery out of the New Testament.5
Just who is “you”? No one has for 2,000 years my dear sir.
[Bertrand Russell] had it right when he made the following observation: “The Spaniards in Mexico and Peru used to baptize Indian infants and then immediately dash their brains out: by this means they secured these infants went to Heaven.” No orthodox Christian can find any logical reason for condemning their action, although all nowadays do so. In countless ways the doctrine of personal immortality in its Christian form has had disastrous effects upon morals.6
Sad to note the results of the oxygen deprived brain secretions of someone whose mind is stuck in well within the box atheist group think.
The gravity of Jewish suffering over the ages, culminating in the Holocaust, makes it almost impossible to entertain any suggestion that Jews might have brought their troubles upon themselves. This is, however, in a rather narrow sense, the truth.7
Where are the outcries of the anti-anti-Semites?
The Bible, it seems certain, was the work of sand-strewn men and women who thought the earth was flat and for whom a wheelbarrow would have been a breathtaking example of emerging technology.
Another fine atheist talking point. Yet, another atheist talking point that discredits the atheist while leaving the Bible unscathed. See the post: Positive Atheism – Cliff Walker: The Flat Earth Falls Flat
Jesus Christ-who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens-can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.
Words like “God” and “Allah” must go the way of “Apollo” and “Baal,” or they will unmake our world_Faith-based religion must suffer the same slide into obsolescence.8
Let us add accidents that cause the universe and everything in it to the list.
When we find reliable ways to make human beings more loving, less fearful, and genuinely enraptured by the fact of our appearance in the cosmos, we will have no need for divisive religious myths. Only then will the practice of raising our children to believe that they are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or Hindu be broadly recognized as the ludicrous obscenity that it is.9
Ya vol!
making religious certitude look stupid will be exploited, and we’ll start laughing at people who believe_We’ll laugh at them in a way that will be synonymous with excluding them from our halls of power.10
Ya vol!-again.
Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.11
Ya vol!-for real.
Once the neurology of belief becomes clear_religious faith will be exposed for what it is: a humble species of terrestrial credulity.
If we better understood the workings of the human brain, we would undoubtedly discover lawful connections between our states of consciousness, our modes of conduct, and the various ways we use our attention. If we ever develop such a science, most of our religious texts will be no more useful to mystics than they now are to astronomers.12
Those are big ifs but good enough for the atheist who imagines himself into affirming atheism. This is evidence that he did not become a neuroscientist in order to practice unbiased science but in order to attempt to affirm his particular sect of atheism.
God’s counsel to parents is refreshingly straightforward: whenever children get out of line, we should beat them with a rod (Proverbs 13:24, 20:30, and 23:13-14).13
Superb emotive well within the box atheist group think yet, utterly unbiblical.