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	• Letter to a Christian Nation (Vintage) Sam Harris Vintage, 2008 - 144 pages average customer review:based on 603 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

letter to a christian nation

an excellent work accurately outlining the attitudes in america today. unfortunately, those who should read it, ie: christians, probably won't.

Intelligent understanding

Sam Harris' book "Letter to a Christian Nation" is a must read for everyone who calls him or herself a Christian. It shows how narrow-minded and unscientific we often are, and how we are perpetuating the false beliefs that actually prevent us from becoming aware of the infinite Divine Presence within ourself and everywhere.
Well written.

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Let's face it, the world blows.

I am not going to go into how intelligent I want to make myself sound on a review or sit here and point fingers and say you are an idiot. What bothered me about the book was not what Mr. Harris tries to do, it is the response he got from "christians." Christians are their own worst enemy and I don't think anymore books on atheism or about the lack of god need to be written. They will destroy themselves, while the actual christians will be worshipping god in the way that he instructed them to do. I don't want to say what my faith is and I don't want to point out errors he made in the text, all I got to say is Mr. Harris has every single right to say what he wants, no matter what he believes as long as he doesn't push it on anyone. I would hate to be living in a time where information like this was not available to us. I think he doesn't have a clear understanding as to what christianity is, but that doesn't matter. I am glad he and other athiests wrote their books. We never want to supress anything intellectual. Thank you for the book.

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any religion fails

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.

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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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