Letter to a Christian Nation (Vintage)

Letter to a Christian Nation (Vintage)
by Sam Harris

Letter to a Christian Nation (Vintage)
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Author: Sam Harris
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-01-08
ISBN: 0307278778
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Vintage

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Book Review: Mediocre
Summary: 3 Stars

To appreciate this "letter" you need to understand the historical context in which Sam Harris wrote it. I dislike his treatment of Muslims and Christians as fundamentalists and he tries to be biting like Hitchens but fails. If he really wants the moderate believer to change their behaviour and shun the fundamentalist, he is going to have to do a better job than to alienate them. It was good atheist porn at the time, but as time goes on, it seems the foundation of his thesis may have been incorrect.

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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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