Letter to a Christian Nation (Vintage) | Sam Harris

Letter to a Christian Nation (Vintage) | Sam Harris | Live and Let Live

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	Letter to a Christian Nation (Vintage) Sam Harris Vintage, 2008 - 144 pages average customer review:based on 617 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Holy Moley

A must read for all Americans with more than a few brain cells. Sam Harris stakes out how crazy our society is for putting so much effort, stock, and energy, into Christian religious beliefs, and how such an enterprise is bad for all of us. Any objective assessment demonstrates that Christian beliefs are a hodge- podge of stories, than in any other context should have as much relevance to society as fairy tails. However so many, who subscribe to these beliefs, force their cherry picked standards from bibles they have not read, from codes that are clearly man- made, in a way that is antithetical to a democratic society. Sam wants Christians to wake up and take a rational look at themselves and lays out the case that they have no more legitimacy to impose their fantastical delusions upon America than any other religious belief system. This little book is a clarion call for everyone who is sick of the Christian right forcing their agenda onto the public discourse.

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Live and Let Live

Mr. Harris makes a very important point very effectively. At our nation's founding, a great many of the people had a consciousness of how important it was not to deny the freedom of conscience to anyone. The history of Europe and Christianity is full of the oppression, persecution, and brutal violence of people who disagreed on what God commanded people to kill for. Through the slaughter of heretics and blasphemers by mobs, inquisitions, and culminating in the horror of the conflict between the Reformation movement of Protestants and the Counter-Reformation of Catholics that covered the continent with blood and whose violence still continues, people had grown weary of the fight and come here to escape from the dictates of established churches. When we got here, we began making the same mistake all over again, as when the Hartford Baptists were prevented from worshipping by the Episcopalian authorities of the locally established church. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison together with a coalition of followers of non-established churches, including Baptists, Methodists, Quakers, and Unitarians, among others, set down in the Constitution and laws that the government wasn't to meddle in religious affairs, and established a tradition that our nation would protect the freedom of conscience of all. This book re-asserts this tradition and clearly opposes the current efforts of Fundamentalist Christians to impose their values and beliefs on everyone else. His arguments should persuade all but the most fanatic and pious that we're better off without a national religion and need to find another way to educate our children not to harm others than to smack it into their heads with Bibles and telling them that Christian charity extends only to those Christians that have been government-approved.

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any religion fails

Perhapse all religions fail too. Why shouldn't this book become required reading material in high school? I don't know. But, it should be read by all individuals. It's true that morality is not attached to religious dogma. Atheists are just as likely to make moral decisions based on personal convictions not convictions tied to their paticular religiosity. This is Sam Harris's second book; he is an exceptional writer; I hope he continues to write other books on the same direction. In this tiny book, Sam Harris discusses why fundamental religions (not just Christianity) are causing a serious problem in this country both educationally (by promoting such things as creationism which allows people to base science on the bible's narrow view of how the world was created by a supreme being) and threatening further scientific development (by letting religious dogma on certain matters as stem cell research take a very sharp regression). If we don't forge ahead we will cause a significant deterioration of our civilization in the name of religion; these are but a few themes of this remarkable book.

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Not an Impressive Work at All

I was not at all impressed with this little book. Yes, the author did make several valid points, but virtually none of those good points, need to contradict the true teachings of G-d's Torah (Old Testament). Most of the time, the author was either vague, or simply showed his ignorance, distorting what G-d and His Torah are all about. If Sam Harris is genuinely interested in the truth, he should consult his local competent Orthodox Rabbi, who would be able to easily refute just about any and every point that this author thinks he made.

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