This Excerpt from The End of Faith by Sam Harris is nothing short of perfection.
"The belief that certain books were written by god leaves us powerless to address the most potent source of human conflict, past and present. How is it that the absurdity of this idea does not bring us, hourly, to our knees? It is safe to say that few of us would have thought so many people could believe such a thing, if they did not actually believe it. Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by god or that a specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Window 98. Could anything- anything- be more ridiculous? And yet, this is no more ridiculous than the world we are living in."
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