The end of faith

religion, terror, and the future of reason

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Free Press 2006 Heftet

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This book delivers a analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. The author offers a historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favour of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behaviour and sometimes heinous crimes. He asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, we can no longer tolerate views that pit one true god against another. Most controversially, he argues that we cannot afford moderate lip service to religion - an accommodation that only blinds us to the real perils of fundamentalism. While warning against the encroachment of organised religion into world politics, Harris also draws on new evidence from neuroscience and insights from philosophy to explore spirituality as a biological, brain-based need. He calls on us to invoke that need in taking a secular humanistic approach to solving the problems of this world. With bibliography and index.

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This book delivers a analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. The author offers a historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favour of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behaviour and sometimes heinous crimes. He asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, we can no longer tolerate views that pit one true god against another. Most controversially, he argues that we cannot afford moderate lip service to religion - an accommodation that only blinds us to the real perils of fundamentalism. While warning against the encroachment of organised religion into world politics, Harris also draws on new evidence from neuroscience and insights from philosophy to explore spirituality as a biological, brain-based need. He calls on us to invoke that need in taking a secular humanistic approach to solving the problems of this world. With bibliography and index.

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Forlag Free Press

Utgivelsesår 2006

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ISBN13 9780743268097

EAN 9780743268097

Språk Engelsk

Sider 336

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Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now, are quite willing to die for our unjustified beliefs, and millions more, it seems, are willing to kill for them.

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And yet, the fact that we are no longer killing people for heresy in the West suggests that bad ideas, however sacred, cannot survive in the company of good ones forever.

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Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world, because their beliefs provide the context in which scriptural literalism and religious violence can never be adequately opposed.

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It is time we realized that we need not be unreasonable to suffuse our lives with love, compassion, ecstacy, and awe; nor must we renounce all forms of spirituality or mysticism to be on good terms with reason.

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It is important to realize that a healthy, scientific skepticism is compatible with a fundamental openness of mind.

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