=== Comment from uninvolved party === 

 I must admit that I too find this lengthy and coatracky quote inappropriate. Sam Harris seems to have general issues with religion, ones which I myself find compelling, but this quote is inappropriate anywhere outside discussions of Sam Harris or his books. The quote is not born of scholarship, it is born of a general polemical debate. If we don't have higher quality sources on the matter then we probably shouldn't mention it at all, offhand I would wager that higher quality sources can be found.