Sam Harris on why he chose to write a his book The End
Of Faith. Interestingly Harris is believer in
spirituality and mysticism as well as an attacker of
moderate faith for providing context and legitimacy to
the lunatic fringe .
FROM SALON-
...It was really my immediate response to the events
of Sept. 11 -- the moment it became apparent to me
that we were meandering into a religious war with the
Muslim world and were not going to call it as such,
and paradoxically, in our efforts to console
ourselves, we were becoming increasingly deranged by
our own religious certainty. We have a society in
which 44 percent of the people claim to be either
certain or confident that Jesus is going to come back
out of the clouds and judge the living and the dead
sometime in the next 50 years. It just seems to me
transparently obvious that this is a belief that will
do nothing to create a durable civilization. And I
think its time someone spoke about it.
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