“The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith, which is surely the devil’s masterpiece.” Sam Harris

“It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.” Richard Feynman

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” Christopher Hitchens

“Man is manifestly not the measure of al things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name. The consciousness that animates us itself central to this mystery and ground for any experience we may wish to call "spiritual.” No myth needs to be embraced for us to commune with the profundity of our circumstance. No personal God need to be worshipped for us to live in awe at the beauty and immensity of creation. No tribal fictions need to be rehearsed for us to realize, one fine day, that we do, in fact, love our neighbors, that our happiness is inextricable from their own, and that our interdependence demands that people everywhere be given the opportunity to flourish. The days of our religious identities are clearly numbered. Whether the days of civilization itself are numbered would seem to depend, rather to much, on how soon we realize.“ Sam Harris