The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason | Paperback

Released on 06 February 2006

Author: Sam Harris | Format: Paperback

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This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Sam Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favour of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behaviour and sometimes heinous crimes. He asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, we can no longer tolerate views that pit one true god against another. Most controversially, he argues that we cannot afford moderate lip service to religion -- an accommodation that only blinds us to the real perils of fundamentalism. While warning against the encroachment of organised religion into world politics, Harris also draws on new evidence from neuroscience and insights from philosophy to explore spirituality as a biological, brain-based need. He calls on us to invoke that need in taking a secular humanistic approach to solving the problems of this world.

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 Utterly brilliant.

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I really can't begin to articulate or do justice to the quality and lucidity of the arguments put forward by Harris within this book, so I'll just say this;

If you have an open, intelligent and enquiring mind - Read it.
If you want a better understanding of why the world is in such a mess - Read it
If you are interested in ethics, moral identity and politics - Read it.
If you are intrigued by the nature of belief - Read it

 Dull and hard work

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Having read and enjoyed "Letter to a Christian Nation" by the same author, I was looking forward to "The End of Faith".
I found it dull and hard-going. I have given it several goes and just given up. Life's too short!
The people who really need to read a book like this aren't going to go near it and for the rest of us, there are better books about. "Letter to a Christian Nation" for a start and of course "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, which covers broardly the same stuff and is much more readable.

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AuthorSam Harris
PublisherSimon & Schuster Ltd (United Kingdom)
Year2006
ISBN9780743268097
FormatPaperback - 336 Pages