Sam Harris is really my kind of guy. I like neuroscience, and I maintain correspondence with a close friend of mine at Stanford U, who specializes in it.

The science vs religion theme : Religion is a thing you do. The misinterpretation of people like Dawkins and Hitchens is that religion is just a mistaken proto-science. But religion is about action, and faith is about trust. Religious truth is not something you sit in your private room and decide, “oh, does God exist or not?” You will never understand God unless you are involved in some kind of community where that word begins to make sense in the life of that community. And lately brain science struggles to come to grips with qualia. The distinction between registering (as on a scientific instrumental dial) and actually feeling a phenomenon (as in “consciousness”) becomes central. Personal experience and conscious moral accountability – science doesn’t do well with such. I share Harris’ respect for the best of the genuinely experimental aspects of Indian religion, especially Buddhism.

One of the better Harris quotes:
If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?”