The case against religion

Sam Harris makes the case against religion.

[O]ne of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest personal concerns— about ethics, spiritual experience, and the inevitability of human suffering—in ways that are not flagrantly irrational. Nothing stands in the way of this project more than the respect we accord religious faith. While there is no guarantee that rational people will always agree, the irrational are certain to be divided by their dogmas. [Emphasis added.] …

If religious war is ever to become unthinkable for us, in the way that slavery and cannibalism seem poised to, it will be a matter of our having dispensed with the dogma of faith.