As long as a Christian believes that only his baptized brethren will be saved on the Day of Judgment, he cannot possibly “respect” the beliefs of oth… - Sam Harris

The sense, therefore, that we are unified subjects — the unchanging thinkers of thoughts and experiencers of experience — is an illusion. The conventional self is a transitory appearance among transitory appearances, and it vanishes when looked for.

That so many of us are still dying on account of ancient myths is as bewildering as it is horrible and our own attachment to these myths, whether moderate or extreme, has kept us silent in the face of developments that could ultimately destroy us. Indeed, religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past.

Unconscious neural events determine our thoughts and actions — and are themselves determined by prior causes of which we are subjectively unaware.