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From the new afterword by the author:

Humanity has had a long fascination with blood sacrifice. In fact, it has been by no means uncommon for a child to be born into this world only to be patiently and lovingly reared by religious maniacs, who believe that the best way to keep the sun on its course or to ensure a rich harvest is to lead him by tender hand into a field or to a mountaintop and bury, butcher, or burn him alive as offering to an invisible God. The notion that Jesus Christ died for our sins and that his death constitutes a successful propitiation of a “loving” God is a direct and undisguised inheritance of the superstitious bloodletting that has plagued bewildered people throughout history. . .

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"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

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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.

Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (January 8, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307278778
ISBN-13: 978-0307278777
Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 1,183 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,666 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #16 in Cultural Policy
- #5 in Agnosticism (Books)
- #18 in Atheism (Books)

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Interesting Ramblings

August 8, 2018

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I enjoyed reading this book but found it disorganized. I warn using this book as any more than something that provokes thought. Many believers will likely be immediately turned off by Harris’s tone, and it’s purpose seems more to gratify non-believers than to convert theists. Sections of the book are unnecessarily extra harsh on Muslims, and may be used (out of context) to promote violence against them. Regardless of who you are, should you get this book, read through a filter, recognize Harris’s biases, keep an open mind, and enjoy his moments of insight.

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Dawn L.

Read this on a Kindle app. Easier to highlight and take notes, and you WILL want to. Fascinating.

July 5, 2018

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I read on Kindle, and highlight things I want to remember. Typical a book will have 9 or 10 highlights. I was 70 pages into this book before I hit a page that DIDN"T have something highlighted. I've read hundreds of thousands of books. Hands down, Letter to a Christian Nation is the best non-fiction I have ever read. I just wish I could download it to my head. Thanks to Sam, when people were stalking my Dog Park (Seriously? A Dog Park?) with signs saying "What the Bible Teaches Us" I was able to tell them "Not math. God may have been omnipotent, but he couldn't figure out how to measure a circle. (I hardly ever leave reviews, but this book NEEDS to be read. By everyone.)

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Thomas B

Thought provoking beyond belief

December 28, 2017

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This is probably one of the most important short books, I have had the privilege to read. It should result in sincere discussions about the role, or current lack thereof, religion plays in today’s world.
May-be future generations will look back at this time as a watershed moment, where humanity takes a step further towards enlightenment.

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Jon H. Thompson

A detour on the Road to Damascus

August 14, 2019

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As a grateful Christian my comments regarding “Letter to a Christian Nation” would be slanted. Instead, let Sam Harris speak for himself in the following quotes. Readers can then form their own opinions as to the book and the author. A page number is given for each quote.

P. ix, “...I have set out to demolish the intellectual and moral pretensions of Christianity.”

p. xi, “Our country now appears, as at no other time in her history, like a lumbering, bellicose, dim-witted giant.”

P. xii, “It is, therefore, not an exaggeration to say that if the city of New York were suddenly replaced by a ball of fire, some significant percentage of the American population would see a silver lining in the subsequent mushroom cloud, as it would suggest to them that the best thing that is ever going to happen was about to happen: the return of Christ.”

P. 69, “...one can obtain a PhD in any branch of science for no other purpose than to make cynical use of scientific language in an effort to rationalize the glaring inadequacies of the Bible. A handful of Christians appear to have done this; some have even obtained their degrees from reputable universities.”

P. 91, “That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.”

P. 91, “This letter is the product of failure...the failure of our schools to announce the death of God in a way that each generation can understand.”

P. 96 “...it is astride this contemptible history of religious atrocity and scientific ignorance that Christianity now stands as an absurdly unselfconscious apotheosis. The notion that Jesus Christ died for our sins and that his death constitutes a successful propitiation of a “loving” God is a direct and undisguised inheritance of the superstitious bloodletting that has plagued bewildered people throughout history.”

P. 110 “...faith is generally nothing more than the permission religious people give one another to believe things strongly without evidence...”

P. 114 “Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath...”

The author adds a recommended reading list that includes "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," by Charles Mackay. If Harris ever decides to make a good faith effort to engage Christians, I would suggest an additional title, "How to Win Friends & Influence People," by Dale Carnegie.

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Tammy Bellflower

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June 11, 2019

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“While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still have many subscribers. Anyone caught worshipping Poseidon, even at sea, will be thought insane.” ― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

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Joanne M. Friedman

Food for thought!

January 22, 2016

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Well-written, well-documented, and completely intriguing. I bought the audio book, listened to it, then started again from the beginning. I was expecting a diatribe of the Facebook/Twitter type and was delighted with the intellectual approach to the subject of the erratic Christianizing of the country.

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Meldar

Fortunately the young generation in this country is leaving these ...

January 30, 2016

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Sam is a profoundly solid rational thinker. He put forth a very much needed argument as to why all religions are of very little positive benefit to this modern society or any society actually. All religions need to fade onto the background of history as a way of life. They are an obsolete concept. Fortunately the young generation in this country is leaving these beliefs behind and relying more and more on scientific thinking to guide themselves.

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