Badly needed.-Johann Hari "The Independent" A brave, pugilistic attempt to demolish the walls that currently insulate religious people from criticism. Sam Harris launches a sustained nuclear assault. An eminently sensible rallying cry for a more ruthless secularisation of society.-Stephanie Merritt "The Observer" Read Sam Harris and wake up.-Richard Dawkins "The Guardian"Ī radical attack on the most sacred of liberal precepts-the notion of tolerance. Winner of the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction.Ī genuinely frightening book. While warning against the encroachment of organized religion into world politics, Harris draws on insights from neuroscience, philosophy, and Eastern mysticism to deliver a call for a truly modern foundation for ethics and spirituality that is both secular and humanistic. He offers a vivid, historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs-even when these beliefs inspire the worst human atrocities. About the Book Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior and sometimes heinous crimes.īook Synopsis In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world.
0 kommentar(er)
