Book Notes

Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

Religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral -- that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings.

American teenagers engage in about as much sex as teenagers in the rest of the developed world, but Americans girls are about four to five times more likely to become pregnant, to have a baby, or to have an abortion.

It is time we acknowledged how disgraceful it is for the survivors of a catastrophe to believe themselves spared by a loving God, while the same God drowned infants in their cribs.

{The Bible] does not contain a single sentence that could not have bee written by a man or woman living in the first century.