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Also by Sam Harris:

Ham: Slices of a Life, January 2014
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The Moral Landscape, October 2010
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Letter to a Christian Nation, September 2006
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The End of Faith, October 2005
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The End of Faith
Sam Harris

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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