Sam Harris

"Letter to a Christian Nation"

"to destroy the intellectual and moral pretensions of Christianity in its most committed forms." p IX

"The End of Faith"

"We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common we call them 'religious'; otherwise, they are likely to be called 'mad', 'psychotic', or 'delusional'" p72

"The Moral Landscape"

"Evolution could never have foreseen the wisdom or necessity of creating stable democracies, mitigating climate change,saving other species from extinction, containing the spread of nuclear weapons, or of doing much else that is now crucial to our happiness in this century." p10

Cited by Turek on p102 of Stealing from God