Posted on 10/21/2005 8:33:47 PM PDT by Teófilo
A book fit for the garbage can.
A bad, bad book. Sam Harris writes from a condescending, self-centered perspective, casting aspersions left-and-right and jumping to surprising conclusions from flimsy argumentation. The author's analysis of religious experience is simplistic and his anthropology rife with reductionism. His description of the Catholic Eucharist is particularly odious, even more so his assertion that it is a bloody ritual connected to genocide. Toss this ill-conceived clap-trap away and read instead The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God, by Kitty Ferguson, a more intelligent, thought-provoking treatment of the subject.
Better yet, read Chesterton's "Orthodoxy", written back in the 1920's. Reason has been going to soon overthrow religious belief for a long, long time, but it never seems to actually happen. And Chesterton is a SPLENDID writer.
We wound up with a mess and are still dealing with the fallout from the Enlightenment which divorced body, mind, and spirit from one another.
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