Book description
' Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to
believe in God. The most hostile of these communications have come
from Christians. This is ironic, as Christians generally imagine that
no faith imparts the virtues of love and forgiveness more effectively
than their own. The truth is that many who claim to be transformed by
Christ's love are deeply, even murderously, intolerant of criticism.
While we may want to ascribe this to human nature, it is clear that
such hatred draws considerable support from the Bible. How do I know
this? The most disturbed of my correspondents always cite chapter and verse.'
So begins Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris's
hard-hitting rebuttal of religious fundamentalism and blind belief .
With deceptively simple arguments, he demolishes the myths on which
Christianity was built, challenges believers to open their eyes to the
contradictions of their faith and warns us of the dangers of America's
ever increasing unification of Church and State.
Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestseller
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
and winner of the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First
Non-fiction. He is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University
and is now completing a doctorate in neuroscience. He lives in New York.
www. samharris. org
