“Letter to a Christian Nation” Review

Posted by on Nov 21, 2007 in Reviews | 3 comments

For those of you who have yet to read Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation, I can tell you it’s an excellent read. Also, a very short and quick read. Since it’s written directly to the American Christian (using “you”), I had to get passed being referred to as a Christian (raised Jewish, its far off from anything I am personally used to).

I like this book because it says a lot in so few pages (about 95). Here is a short synopsis (from Wikipedia):

Harris addresses his arguments to members of the conservative Christian Right in America. In answer to their appeal to the Bible on all questions of morality, he points to the harsh moral code of the Old Testament (death for adultery, homosexuality, disobedience to parents etc.), and contrasts this with, for example, the complete non-violence of Jainism. Harris argues that the reliance on dogma can create a false morality, which is divorced from the reality of human suffering and the efforts to alleviate it; thus religious objections stand in the way of condom use, stem cell research, abortion, and the use of a promising new vaccine for the human papilloma virus.

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  • Interested

    AH, when I read this book I realized, perhaps for the first time, what I felt about religion. Harris writes what I wanted to say and never had the talent to pen.

  • Earl Lee

    you might be interested in this book which is a parody of the Right Wing Xtian “Left Behind” books

    it’s a book called:

    Raptured: The final Daze of the Late, Great Planet Earth.

    http://www.amazon.com/Raptured-Final-Great-Planet-Behind/dp/1884365426

  • Dr. T

    And then there are the secular religions — communism being the most prominent one — which killed hundreds of millions of people last century.