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Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
W. W. Norton
October 2005
224 pages
ISBN: 0393327655
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Religion
An impassioned plea for reason in a world divided by
faith.
This important and timely book delivers a
startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in
today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of
mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of
religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to
justify harmful behavior and sometimes-heinous crimes. He
asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction,
we can no longer tolerate views that pit one true god
against another. Most controversially, he argues that we
cannot afford moderate lip service to religion--an
accommodation that only blinds us to the real perils of
fundamentalism. While warning against the encroachment of
organized religion into world politics, Harris also draws on
new evidence from neuroscience and insights from philosophy
to explore spirituality as a biological, brain-based need.
He calls on us to invoke that need in taking a secular
humanistic approach to solving the problems of this
world.
Natalie Angier wrote in the New York Times:
"The End of Faith articulates the dangers and
absurdities of organized religion so fiercely and so
fearlessly that I felt relieved as I read it, vindicated...
Harris writes what a sizable number of us think, but few are
willing to say."
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