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Taking on Christians’ gospel truth
This combination of ruthless argument with polemic designed to provoke (he describes the Catholic Church as the “institution that has produced and sheltered an elite army of child-molesters”) will further delight Harris’ supporters and infuriate his critics.
The Age of Horrorism
Martin Amis
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, one of Britain’s most celebrated and original writers analyses - and abhors - the rise of extreme Islamism. In a penetrating and wide-ranging essay he offers a trenchant critique of the grotesque creed and questions the West’s faltering response to this eruption of evil.
“The Temple of Reason,” Interview in The Sun
Sam Harris is a brave man. In a country where 90 percent of adults say they believe in God, he has written a bestseller condemning religion…
The Sun Magazine, September 2006
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“The New Naysayers,” Newsweek
Americans answered the atrocities of September 11, overwhelmingly, with faith. Attacked in the name of God, they turned to God for comfort… Sam Harris, then a 34-year-old graduate student in neuroscience, had a different reaction. On Sept. 12, he began a book…
Newsweek Magazine, September 11, 2006
“The disbeliever,” Salon Books
Three-quarters of all Americans believe the Bible is God’s word, according to a recent Pew poll. Numbers like that make an outspoken atheist like Sam Harris seem either foolhardy or uncommonly brave.
“Sam Harris: The Truthdig Interview”
The best-selling author of “The End of Faith” talks about the way to navigate a dinner party without coming off as the Antichrist; about the “Salman Rushdie effect” that accompanies his newfound celebrity as America’s most prominent atheist; and about the new secular foundation he is founding. —Blair Golson
Introducing 15 people who have shaped the global conversation about science in 2005.
For Sam Harris, nothing is more sacred than reason…
The sea of faith and violence
By Johann Hari
“Sam Harris launches a sustained nuclear assault… A bold and exhilarating thesis… The End of Faith is a brave, pugilistic attempt to demolish the walls that currently insulate religious people from criticism… The End of Faith is badly needed…”
“The Iconoclast,” Stanford Magazine
Sam Harris wants believers to stop believing.
“The Gods Must Be Crazy,” Black + White Magazine
ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, American academic Sam Harris watched repeatedly as a pair of hijacked jet airliners slammed one after the other into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. As the plane’s payload of high-octane fuel weakened the very foundations of the two buildings, Harris realised that on a metaphorical level the forces of religious extremism were having much the same effect on the defining power of reason and rational thought in our society.
— Black + White Magazine - May, 2005
“God Wrote a Book,” Shambhala Sun
Sam Harris is a blunt instrument. His recent bestseller, The End of Faith, has been celebrated—and condemned—as a frontal assault on religion. But to be fair to his argument, he defines “religion” narrowly—as the faith that a certain old text or doctrine is the complete and immutable truth—and by most people’s definition he is a religious man himself, arguing in favor of a contemplative path.
Faith no more
“A radical attack on the most sacred of liberal precepts—the notion of tolerance… [The End of Faith] is an eminently sensible rallying cry for a more ruthless secularisation of society.”
4 books that examine the place of faith in public life
The Never-ending Question of Faith
Against Toleration
”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, almost personally understood… Harris writes what a sizable number of us think, but few are willing to say in contemporary America… This is an important book, on a topic that, for all its inherent difficulty and divisiveness, should not be shielded from the crucible of human reason.”
Channeling Bertrand Russell
By JOHN DERBYSHIRE
Reason and Religion
“This book will strike a chord with anyone who has ever pondered the irrationality of religious faith… Even Mr. Harris’s critics will have to concede the force of an analysis which roams so far and wide, from the persecution of the Cathars to the composition of George Bush’s cabinet.”
A fear of the faithful who mean exactly what they believe
”[Harris] writes with such verve and frequent insight that even skeptical readers will find it hard to put down.”
