Letter to a Christian Nation, 9780307278777
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Faith under fire: a powerful challenge to Christian dogma.

Letter to a Christian Nation

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  • Paperback

    144 pages

  • Release Date

    8 January 2008

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Summary

Deconstructing Faith: A Letter to a Christian Nation

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 aliv…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780307278777
ISBN-10:0307278778
Series:Vintage Books
Author:Sam Harris
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Random House Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:144
Release Date:8 January 2008
Weight:153g
Dimensions:203mm x 132mm x 11mm
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Critics Review

“A breath of fresh fire.” —Wall Street Journal“I dare you to read this book…it will not leave you unchanged. Read it if it is the last thing you do.” —Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion“It’s a shame that not everyone in this country will read Sam Harris’ marvelous little book Letter to a Christian Nation. They won’t but they should.” —Leonard Susskind, Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics, Stanford University

About The Author

Sam Harris

Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times best seller, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, which won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. He is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University and has studied both Eastern and Western religious traditions, along with a variety of contemplative disciplines, for twenty years. Mr. Harris is now completing a doctorate in neuroscience, studying the neural basis of belief, disbelief, and uncertainty with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). His work has been discussed in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Economist, and New Scientist, among many other journals, and he has made television appearances on The O’Reilly Factor, Scarborough Country, Faith Under Fire, and Book TV.

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