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“Sam Harris’s elegant little book is most refreshing and a wonderful source of ammunition for those who, like me, hold to no religious doctrine. Yet I have some sympathy also with those who might be worried by his uncompromising stance. Read it and form your own view, but do not ignore its message.” –Sir Roger Penrose, emeritus professor of mathematics, Oxford University, author of The Road to Reality“Reading Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation was like sitting ring side, cheering the champion, yelling ‘Yes!’ at every jab. For those of us who feel depressed by this country’s ever increasing unification of church and state, and the ever decreasing support for the sciences that deliver knowledge and reduce ignorance, this little book is a welcome hit of adrenalin.”–Marc Hauser, Harvard College Professor, author of Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Sense of Right and Wrong“I can’t sign my name to this blurb. As a New York Times best selling author of books about business, my career will evaporate if I endorse a book that challenges the deeply held superstitions and bigotry of the masses. That’s exactly why you should (no, you must) read this angry and honest book right away. As long as science and rational thought are under attack by the misguided yet pious majority, our nation is in jeopardy. I’m scared. You should be too. Please buy two, one for you and one for a friend you care about.”–Unsigned, New York Times best selling author“It’s a shame that not everyone in this country will read Sam Harris’ marvelous little book Letter to a Christian Nation. They won’t but they should.” –Leonard Susskind, Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics, Stanford University, author of The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design“We all know about good things that have been derived from bad ideas. Modern religions serve many social goods such as health care for the poor. The problem is that is also services many reprehensible ideas. Harris blows the whistle, pointing out the religions of the world are based on human generated vengeful stories. Read this book and you decide your stance for the future.”–Michael S. Gazzaniga, Director of the Sage Center for the Study of Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of The Ethical Brain“Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies–misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation and our future. His argument for the morality, the honesty, and the humility of atheism is galvanizing. It is a relief that someone has spoken so frankly, with such passion yet such rationality. Now when the subject arises, as it inevitably does, I can simply say: Read Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation.” –Janna Levin, Columbia University, author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
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About the Author
Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times best seller The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, winner of the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction.
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Product details
Hardcover: 96 pages
Publisher: Knopf (September 19, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307265773
ISBN-13: 978-0307265777
Product Dimensions:
4.4 x 0.6 x 7.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
1,174 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#59,493 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I read on Kindle, and highlight things I want to remember. Typical a book will have 9 or 10 highlights. I was 70 pages into this book before I hit a page that DIDN"T have something highlighted. I've read hundreds of thousands of books. Hands down, Letter to a Christian Nation is the best non-fiction I have ever read. I just wish I could download it to my head. Thanks to Sam, when people were stalking my Dog Park (Seriously? A Dog Park?) with signs saying "What the Bible Teaches Us" I was able to tell them "Not math. God may have been omnipotent, but he couldn't figure out how to measure a circle. (I hardly ever leave reviews, but this book NEEDS to be read. By everyone.)
I enjoyed reading this book but found it disorganized. I warn using this book as any more than something that provokes thought. Many believers will likely be immediately turned off by Harris’s tone, and it’s purpose seems more to gratify non-believers than to convert theists. Sections of the book are unnecessarily extra harsh on Muslims, and may be used (out of context) to promote violence against them. Regardless of who you are, should you get this book, read through a filter, recognize Harris’s biases, keep an open mind, and enjoy his moments of insight.
This is probably one of the most important short books, I have had the privilege to read. It should result in sincere discussions about the role, or current lack thereof, religion plays in today’s world.May-be future generations will look back at this time as a watershed moment, where humanity takes a step further towards enlightenment.
Well-written, well-documented, and completely intriguing. I bought the audio book, listened to it, then started again from the beginning. I was expecting a diatribe of the Facebook/Twitter type and was delighted with the intellectual approach to the subject of the erratic Christianizing of the country.
The publication of cartoons in Denmark of Mohammed has provided an enlightening litmus test on how truly supportive American Conservative Christians and the Catholic Church are regarding the founding American ideal of free speech as they lobby for speech restrictions to promote respect for other religious belief, even if reason, empirical evidence, and sound public policy would argue otherwise. Couple the threat speech is under regarding public debate of religious ideas with the increased ability of religious zealots, primarily Muslims, to effectively engage in asymmetrical warfare and mutual desire by radical Muslims and the Christian Right for the fulfillment of prophecy via a global apocalypse.The recent questions these factors beg is now being asked and an increasing number of enlightened people wonder; can Civilization afford to tolerate a culture that analyzes the veracity of everything that effects public policy with the exception of religious beliefs? Can we continue to view religious beliefs as a quaint and harmless legacy of our past or are these primitive beliefs a factor now threatening the moral and technological progress, and even the security of Western Civilization in general and America specifically? Do today's Christian Conservatives want a free and open public debate on the veracity of Christian dogma in the public square or are they merely looking for protection of their ideas by way of increased government power? Would the people who want to promote Christian theology in the public schools and science classrooms also support a critical assessment of the truth of their beliefs in the public schools as well, by way for example, of consideration of Mr. Harris' arguments contained in "Letter to a Christian Nation"?Mr. Harris makes a clear stand that we cannot afford to protect religious beliefs from criticism: "the primary purpose of this book is to arm secularists in our society, who believe that religion should be kept out of public policy, against their opponents on the Christian Right" (pg. viii). Mr. Harris clearly believes in a free market of ideas, where no idea should be protected because it's a traditionally popular one, in fact Mr. Harris sees the conflation of our technological prowess at destroying the world and that power being eventually more available and the increasing power fundamentalists are having in the Middle East and America as an "emergency" where we can no longer allow primitive superstitions special protections they are provided in our government or else we risk the self-fulfilling prophecy of ending the world (pg. xii). The seeming contradiction between Mr. Harris assertion "that religion should be kept out of public policy" and protection of free speech is that given the premise of a free market exploration of religious ideas, fundamentalist Christian dogma wouldn't survive the scrutiny, scrutiny that is the topic of this book."Letter" is a mere ninety-one page book with more ideas considered, challenged and posited than in many four hundred page books. Its' a fast read and worth reading multiple times, I've read it three times prior to writing this review. Harris also provides further recommended reading that will enlighten readers on the history of American philosophical legacy as it relates to the Constitutional framers' ideals (Jacoby's Freethinkers), the atheist scientists who do believe Science is correct in attacking superstition (Dawkin's "The God Delusion") and an introductory primer on canonical development since Harris accurately assumes most Fundamentalist/Evangelical Christians are ignorant on the development of Christian Dogma and its claim to inerrancy (Ehrman's "Misquoting Jesus"). Some of the other reading recommendations in my opinion are worthless, while the most important recommendation I would recommend and a source that Harris uses is missing, Karen Armstrong's "The Battle for God", probably the best comparative religion book on fundamentalism and why we should fear Christian fundamentalism and not just Islamic fundamentalism.To the customer reviewers who state that Harris' attacks are stale and previously discredited, please provide one tangible example that you are able to refute, I found rhetorical fallacies substituted for reasoned challenge and not supported with evidence in those reviews, a failure not made by Mr. Harris."Letter" is refreshingly frank, mainly because Harris has no qualms about eradicating social niceties where none are deserved. Where Jon Meachum's "American Gospel" goes out of its way to expend words that respectfully discredit ridiculous notions in his "American Gospel", there is no such flotsam and jetsam in Harris' book, ridiculous notions get it right between the eyes, e.g., an intervening God that heals (but for some reason, not amputees), the moral wisdom of a book, the Bible, that condones slavery and promotes authoritarian government rather than the American ideal of freedom through represented government and individual rights. Harris also illuminates the hypocrisy of the notion of an inerrant bible with an all-loving God by publishing text from the Bible that if practiced today, would have you thrown in jail as the lowest scum on earth (the bible's god promoting slavery, killing of your own children for trivial indiscretions, serial killing of innocents including babies, old people, and gays, mistreatment of rape victims, etc.).I am the rare libertarian who believes religion should be taught in the public schools, but critically where the true history is presented and rebuttals to its theology are also presented. Mr. Harris' book belongs in the public school libraries and if one's faith is truly built on truth rather than wishful and emotional thinking, this book should be debated and considered by all Americans, right down to the high school level. Consider me a big fan of Mr. Harris and the moral courage it takes to talk truth to power.
Sam is a profoundly solid rational thinker. He put forth a very much needed argument as to why all religions are of very little positive benefit to this modern society or any society actually. All religions need to fade onto the background of history as a way of life. They are an obsolete concept. Fortunately the young generation in this country is leaving these beliefs behind and relying more and more on scientific thinking to guide themselves.
Perhapse all religions fail too. Why shouldn't this book become required reading material in high school? I don't know. But, it should be read by all individuals. It's true that morality is not attached to religious dogma. Atheists are just as likely to make moral decisions based on personal convictions not convictions tied to their paticular religiosity. This is Sam Harris's second book; he is an exceptional writer; I hope he continues to write other books on the same direction. In this tiny book, Sam Harris discusses why fundamental religions (not just Christianity) are causing a serious problem in this country both educationally (by promoting such things as creationism which allows people to base science on the bible's narrow view of how the world was created by a supreme being) and threatening further scientific development (by letting religious dogma on certain matters as stem cell research take a very sharp regression). If we don't forge ahead we will cause a significant deterioration of our civilization in the name of religion; these are but a few themes of this remarkable book.
No deep intellectual arguments here, but a good summary of the basis by which the majority proclaim belief. The points raised here are addressed in depth by both Harris and others in spades, oth in book and on video. Astonishingly, his rebuttals still require no deeper discussion for the Christian majority in America that has decided to elect a truly morally bankrupt President. As Harris points out, any point you wish to support can be cherry-picked from the amalgamation of centuries of ancient texts now referred to as a single book.
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