HACKER SAFE certified sites prevent over 99.9% of hacker crime.
RELATED AISLES

Annie Barrows Read our exclusive interview with Annie Barrows and save 30% on The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society $15.40
Hardcover Add to Cart



 
Ships free on qualified orders.
$11.00
TRADE PAPER, NEW
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
6 BeavertonPhilosophy- Atheism and Humanism
4 BurnsidePhilosophy- Atheism and Humanism
4 BurnsideFeatured Titles- Spirituality and Wellness
4 HawthornePhilosophy- Atheism and Humanism
25 Local Warehouse Religion Western- Social and Political Issues
43 Local Warehouse Philosophy- Atheism and Humanism
25 Remote Warehouse Religion Comparative- General
Hide store locations


Letter to a Christian Nation
by Sam Harris

Letter to a Christian Nation Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

“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…

www.samharris.org

From the Hardcover edition.

Review:

“Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies–misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation and our future. His argument for the morality, the honesty, and the humility of atheism is galvanizing. It is a relief that someone has spoken so frankly, with such passion yet such rationality. Now when the subject arises, as it inevitably does, I can simply say: Read Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation.”

Janna Levin, Columbia University, author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

From the Hardcover edition.

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

Review:

“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, author of The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design

Review:

“Bracing.”The Nation

Review:

“Reading Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation was like sitting ring side, cheering the champion, yelling ‘Yes!’ at every jab. For those of us who feel depressed by this country’s ever increasing unification of church and state, and the ever decreasing support for the sciences that deliver knowledge and reduce ignorance, this little book is a welcome hit of adrenalin.”

Marc Hauser, Harvard College Professor, author of Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Sense of Right and Wrong

Review:

“We all know about good things that have been derived from bad ideas. Modern religions serve many social goods such as health care for the poor. The problem is that is also services many reprehensible ideas. Harris blows the whistle, pointing out the religions of the world are based on human generated vengeful stories. Read this book and you decide your stance for the future.”

Michael S. Gazzaniga, Director of the Sage Center for the Study of Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of The Ethical Brain

Synopsis:

From the new afterword by the
back to top

About the Author

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.
back to top
back to top

Product Details

ISBN:
9780307278777
Author:
Harris, Sam
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Subject:
Christian Life - Pop Culture Issues
Subject:
Christian Life - Social Issues
Subject:
Christianity - History - Social Issues
Subject:
Sociology of Religion
Subject:
Religion, Politics & State
Subject:
Agnosticism
Subject:
Church and state
Subject:
Fundamentalism
Copyright:
2006
Series:
Vintage
Publication Date:
January 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
120
Dimensions:
7.96x5.26x.45 in. .35 lbs.
back to top