Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Sam Harris, Reply to a Christian http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=sharris_26_4 (May 2006) <br class="br">2000s
“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.”
Source: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 23
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