I generally find Sam Harris to be pretty thorough and he states his points well. He's not as aggressive as Dawkins is or Hitchens was.
However, I can't really get behind statements such as:
Originally posted by Surtur
Forget Jesus, the stars died so you could be here today.
because of how arrogant they come across. Like yes, the universe is amazing, infinitely so, but as a human, I personally find humans to be more relatable than unconscious celestial bodies, and as such, can see why somebody would be more likely to relate to Christ than a mass of matter millions of light years away.
I don't see why hardline atheists need to be so aggressive with their opinions, personally. I find people who are so sure of the lack of a higher power just as obnoxious and arrogant as someone 100% sure of a specific one. Just because the religions on Earth are massively reductive, why do people feel the need to take the binary opposite stance?
Have these people read up about quantum physics? Some of that stuff is just as unbelievable as the idea of a big guy in the sky with magic powers. Or ghosts, for that matter. We've discovered a lot about science that has changed the way we perceive existence. Who is to say we won't discover even more unfathomable things that will change the way we understand life? In the same way that we laugh at people of yore for thinking the Earth was flat, maybe people in the future will laugh at us for not thinking ghosts/spirits or whatever weren't real. Who knows. I like to leave things open, personally.