American author famous for his two controversial best sellers "The End of Faith" and "Letter to A Christian Nation". Incredibly articulate and eloquent, he along with evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, author Christopher Hitchens, and American philosopher Daniel Dennet have ignited a revival in atheism in america. He argues that mankind should not expect to survive its religious differences indefinitely and cautions that the combination of iron age beliefs about god and the afterlife with 21st century destructive technology is a bad one to say the least. He also argues that the subject of religion gets a pass in contemporary civil discourse and this double standard is one of the many things driving us towards the brink because it is considered taboo to questions someones religious beliefs no matter how dangerous they might be.
by zorrokhan September 27, 2007
Person A: Hey, did you see Mr. Dwain (Biology professor) totally own that kid in class today who thought creationism made more sense than evolution?
Person B: Yeah; he's such a Sam Harris.
Person B: Yeah; he's such a Sam Harris.
by Marsh McMallow September 3, 2010
Podcast host, neuroscientist, philosopher (sure, okay), and critic of religion. Author of The End of Faith.
by Troi_Baker May 15, 2021
by Taniwha angler March 20, 2020
by Taniwha angler March 20, 2020
Was a great video until he got to the part were he decides that because Sam's "greater good/manufactured God of curating the reality of stupid people" is a warped and narcissistic enterprise that is entirely dependent on subordinating the will of the masses to his dogmatic liberalism; it means that we NEED God instead. Which is literally that SAME THING as religion.
Hym "Sam Harris' Terrifying Philosophy is literally just a 'God that Sam Harris controls.' That's literally all it is!"
Mas Rharis "We don't need God! We need Jeff Goldblum from Jurassic Park to manufacture a God out of a "greatter good abstraction" and the use the state to enforce the will of this greater good abstraction! They don't have free will anyway! So it doesn't matter what I have to do to get the societal outcomes I desire!"
Mas Rharis "We don't need God! We need Jeff Goldblum from Jurassic Park to manufacture a God out of a "greatter good abstraction" and the use the state to enforce the will of this greater good abstraction! They don't have free will anyway! So it doesn't matter what I have to do to get the societal outcomes I desire!"
by Hym Iam August 12, 2023