“If the president of the U.S. started talking about how Saturn was coming into the wrong quadrant and is therefore not a good time to launch a war, one would hope that the whole White House press corps would descend on him with a straitjacket. This would be terrifying — to hear somebody with so much power basing any part of his decision-making process on something as disreputable as astrology. Yet we don’t have the same response when he’s clearly basing some part of his deliberation on faith.”

- Sam Harris, discussing how when it comes to faith-based violence, religious moderates are part of the problem, not the solution.

http://www.alternet.org/story/36195