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"…there are a few other reasons why we clearly don’t get our morality from religion…even fundamentalists have to edit the books.

You come to the golden rule and you say, well this is truly wise…that’s why I’m reading the bible…but if you come something in Deuteronomy(22:13-21) like,

'If a woman’s not a virgin on her wedding night, you must take her to her father’s doorstep and stone her to death.'

…every fundamentalist Christian and Orthodox Jew…has figured out some way to ignore that…[which] proves that the guarantor of the wisdom found in scripture is not in scripture.

Maybe it’s in us."

— Sam Harris, lecturing on The Moral Landscape

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