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35,10 € 16,06 € For instance – religious people claiming to be moral preach against condom use when AIDS is killing millions. Sam Harris knows full well that the likelihood the people he purportedly addresses in his 'letter' (conservative Christians) will actually read it is close to zero. Books like 'Letter to a Christian Nation' help to collate all the often recited arguments that should (right?) In Letter to a Christian Nation, he takes a more gentle tone and walks the reader through his disbelief in Christianity and other religions.
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Argues that the increasing power of Christian fundamentalists in American politics threatens the country's citizens, blames the Bible for promoting intolerance of other faiths, and … (32,002 ratings by Goodreads) 57 quotes from Letter to a Christian Nation: ‘The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. In October it entered the New York Times Best Seller list at number seven. Like all the books from the author I've read, the information is deceptively easy and maybe too simple looking. Letter to a Christian Nation is a book by Sam Harris, written in response to feedback he received following the publication of his first book The End of Faith. Read it if it is the last thing you do.Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University, author of It’s a shame that not everyone in this country will read Sam Harris’ marvelous little book. These 91 pages could have been put to far more productivSam Harris sets out to "demolish the intellectual and moral pretensions of Christianity in its most committed forms" in only 91 pages. I agree completely with his points, especially when he tears down the idiocy of opposing stem-cell research, and questions the morality of those who call themselves Christians who would uphold the life of an embryo over that of a living adult, or prevent the distribution of condoms in HIV rampant countries.
58,55 € I don’t care whether you want to rub blue mud in your navel, ingest some psylocybin and commune with Gaia. 22,06 € But they don't, they question blind belief, which I also think should be questioned. Please get your facts straight before posting garbage. 133
It won’t take you long, but it might change your mind.Sam Harris is a brave, intelligent, clear-sighted author whose brilliant essay should be read by every adult who has ever believed that a religious faith can solve the world’s problems.Professor of astronomy and physics at Columbia University, author of Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies.
About Lee Habeeb December 13, 2012 8:00 AM. They won't but they should." Read it if it is the last thing you do." This book, however, was a little extreme. Why? 41,06 €
In it Sam Harris responds to the many comments and views addressed to him by believers in the United States. 39,20 € Why are they so obsessed about abortion and not about genocide in Darfur? For example, we use cookies to conduct research and diagnostics to improve our content, products and services, and to measure and analyse the performance of our services., including ads relevant to your interests on Book Depository and to work with approved third parties in the process of delivering ad content, including ads relevant to your interests, to measure the effectiveness of their ads, and to perform services on behalf of Book Depository. What makes the book so worthwhile is not, therefore, any (ahem) great revelations.I agree with other reviewers that there are no new or surprising arguments here. Harris received a lot of hate mail from Christians for his book Harris received a lot of hate mail from Christians for his book A novella length book from Sam Harris about religion feels slightly short and I wish it were longer.
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. 15,15 € It should be blindingly obvious that beliefs of this sort will do little to help us create a durable future for ourselves—socially, economically, environmentally, or geopolitically. Concentrated essence of critique. 32,58 € 13,22 € OK: he does state in the preface that its primary purpose is to "arm secularists", which I guess means he really had a different audience in mind from the start. 7 likes. Sam Harris is so brilliant that he has an acute analysis of the issue. It is notable, however, that Harris never discusses Christians or the “Christian world” with the same language that he directs against Muslims.In his later work, Letter to a Christian Nation, Harris takes up Christianity and the Bible directly. 5,36 €