Letter to a Christian Nation

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Sam Harris

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'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' 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.

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A hard-hitting polemic against religious fundamentalism - Foreword by Richard Dawkins

Author description

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

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ISBN : 9780593058978
Publisher : penguin random house
Imprint : Bantam Press
Publication date : December 2006
Dimensions : 193mm X 122mm X 15mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
Availability date : February 2007
Product Type : books

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Author : Sam Harris
Pages : 112
Reading Level : very good
Dewey classification : 230
Language : en
Edition : 1
Bind : Hardback