Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain -- from cosmology to psychology to economics -- has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture.Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music. . Sam Harris
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The author writes that all of the world's "great" religions trivialize the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. He goes on to say that almost every significant fact about us and our world can be found in scientific literature, while books like the Bible and Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. He also argues that everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music.

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