Sam Harris on Christianity

“If you wake up tomorrow morning thinking that saying a few Latin words over your pancakes is going to turn them into the body of Elvis Presley, you have lost your mind. But if you think more or less the same thing about a cracker and the body of Jesus, you're just a Catholic.”

“Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence. 'Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being'. Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.”