Christ died for your sins; He is the Son of God; All human beings have souls that will be subject to judgment after death. - Sam Harris

I want to maximize my happiness, but I am generally not moved to do what I believe will make me happier than I now am.

If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.

As a general matter, I believe we should be very slow to make conclusions about the nature of the cosmos based upon inner experience – no matter how profound these experiences seem.