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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 277.3083
EAN: 9780307278777
ISBN: 0307278778
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: January 08, 2008
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: January 08, 2008
Sales Rank: 1668
Studio: Vintage
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From the new afterword by the author:
Humanity has had a long fascination with blood sacrifice. In fact, it has been by no means uncommon for a child to be born into this world only to be patiently and lovingly reared by religious maniacs, who believe that the best way to keep the sun on its course or to ensure a rich harvest is to lead him by tender hand into a field or to a mountaintop and bury, butcher, or burn him alive as offering to an invisible God. The notion that Jesus Christ died for our sins and that his death constitutes a successful propitiation of a “loving” God is a direct and undisguised inheritance of the superstitious bloodletting that has plagued bewildered people throughout history. . .
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I have to say that I began reading this book as one critical to the point of view expressed. I thought it was an extraordinarily well-written letter, using good grammar and turns of phrase, that though smarmy and condescending, were still of the highest literary quality. I started sympathizing with the author, because I'll admit, as everyone should, that not all Christians are "tolerant" of other points of view (like Sarah Palin is! ... couldn't resist). Roundabout page 21, Harris's argument got ... Read More
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Just as so much Christian rhetoric is merely preaching to the choir, so too is Harris' little letter. The new wave of atheists, and not the most intellectual of the bunch, will rate this 5 stars and applaud just as blindfolded Christians will do the same for so many of "their" books.
Get out your google and you will find critical reviews not only from the religious but from the most sophisticated atheists, just as you will for the work of Hitchens, Dawkins and the rest of the new crew. ... Read More
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This is one of the first atheism-oriented books I read once I realized that I was probably an atheist and that it was ok to read books on the subject to learn more. If I remember correctly, it was #4, after The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (great), God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens (I couldn't get into it, even though I really liked his writing), and Harris' own The End of Faith (mostly pretty good).
This book was written as a direct response to the criticism Harris received from ... Read More
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Sam Harris' "Letter To A Christian Nation" is a short, simple essay that took only about two hours to get through; yet those two hours provide a concise summary of the principles of atheism and why (according to Harris) a religion-oriented society is outdated and unnecessary in the modern civilized world of the 21st century. This little book, a followup to Harris' "The End Of Faith," became a New York Times best-seller...and if a better book was written especially to piss off the vast majority of mainstream ... Read More
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BRAVO!!! This is one the most clearly argued and important cultural critiques of the last decade. Mr. Harris gives elegant voice to the concerns many of us have over the power that modern religious groups wield to alter not only history but our daily lives. We need many more rational narrative voices like that of Mr. Harris in contemporary America to expose dangerous religiosity for the divisive force that it is.
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