"Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name."
Sam Harris
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"George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd."
Sam Harris
The Four Horsemen of the Anti-Apocalypse.
"The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics."
Sam Harris
Drawing again from ObviouslyCloe.
The second horseman is Sam Harris, American author, philosopher and neuroscientist.
“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.”
"The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not “cowards,” as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faith—perfect faith, as it turns out— and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be."
Sam Harris (The End of Faith, p. 67)
