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There are two approaches one can take with respect to religious criticism. You can either argue that religion is false or that it is dangerous. George H. Smith's magnificent "Atheism: the Case Against God" is the pinnacle of the former approach, and this fine book by Sam Harris is the benchmark for the latter.
Harris writes with eloquent and clearly reasoned agrument why religion (and especially Islam) poses a threat to humans (and other animals, for that matter) far and wide. He shows how religo ...more
Harris writes with eloquent and clearly reasoned agrument why religion (and especially Islam) poses a threat to humans (and other animals, for that matter) far and wide. He shows how religo ...more
I’ve just finished ‘The End of Faith’ by Sam Harris and would strongly recommend it to everyone interested in morality in our modern world. His message is twofold, firstly he catalogues the harm religion can do (pointedly for example those men of ‘faith’ that flew the planes into the world trade towers) and secondly he emphasises the need for “finding approaches to ethics and to spiritual experience that makes no appeal to faith”.
He does an excellent job of analysing the danger of dogma and says ...more
He does an excellent job of analysing the danger of dogma and says ...more
Letter to a Christian Nation was so much better. More concise and to the point. I found this one way too loquacious. I found myself zoning out quite a bit while reading it.
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