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by: Sam Harris  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN: 9780393327656 ISBN: 0393327655 Label: W.W. Norton and company Manufacturer: W.W. Norton and company Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: W.W. Norton and company Studio: W.W. Norton and company Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Be wary of some of those who are on your side.As others have said, this book suffers from the "destroy the village in order to save it" mentality that mirrors the attitudes of Harris' religious adversaries. He can rationalize his reverse intolerance any way he likes, but that's what it is. Like it or not, we secular humanists gain nothing by adopting the narrow tactics of religious extremists in responding to them. One makes common cause with one's ideological opponents as best one can---and sometimes that can't be done when the ... Read More Rating:  - Stick with Daniel Dennet or Richard DawkinsThis is probably one of the worst books ever written on the subject of atheisim and the end of religious faith. Harris should be taken to task on a number of issues, one, which cannot be overlooked, is his simplistic view on torture as necessary to secure vital information...Has Harris not been paying attention to the Iraq War in particular Abu Ghirab? Has he not read anything by Chalmers Johnson-someone who is more experinced than he is-on the subject of torture and information. The ... Read More Rating:  - God is Dead (Again)Often bracketed with "The God Delusion", this is a better book, though fuzzy, loosely argued and (I'm guessing) hastily written. At least Harris is intelligent and open-minded enough to see the rationale of Buddhist spiritual practice: one more intuitive leap and he might understand what religion, the Sacred, has meant to the majority of the human race. Shame he wastes so much space on fashionable but silly anti-Muslim tirades. The reader should try going through and replacing the word ... Read More Rating: - Anti-theism without explicit atheism plus 9/11 causation revealedAlthough he doesn't say so, Harris appears to be an atheist, most certainly in the sense that he does not believe in any traditional gods although towards the end of this book he seems to ascribe to the mysticism of consciousness in a manner consistent with eastern Buddhism. However Harris seems to assert a physical understanding of that phenomenon but maybe open to a naturalistic possibility of something more than just this life. What he is vehemently opposed to is the idea that ancient religions of ... Read More Rating: - From a former christianWhat I liked most about this book was the discuss on religious moderates. I once was a devout believer who took serious everything in the bible , it was quite an experience. The deeper my devolution grew the more difficult it became to live in the real world. I began to see satan in everything; education was evil because they taught evolution which contracted the bible; pop culture values demeaned the traditionalist lifestyle and even my parents rejected strict conformity to christianity. I struggled ... Read More 
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