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The End of Faith by Sam Harris >72
You are certainly allowed to, clamairy! Sam Harris has some trenchant things to say. I liked The End of Faith, but I'm always a little suspicious of people who are too sure of themselves... # 27. The End of Faith by Sam Harris. Before I pull this book apart, I'll start with something positive. This was overall a great read, the points with Harris brought up were perfect to support his thesis. Now for the negative, I found that Harris strayed too much from his main points ... ... home. Job search. Hoping to find a job in the next few weeks so I can move out once more. --
Books Read
1. The End of Faith by Sam Harris
2. Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card
3. Giacomo Costa: The Chronicles of Time by Giacomo Costa
4. The Forever War ... ... dictionary.reference.com and Faith Hill's website. Or Google Books, the first three listing it comes up with are The end of faith: religion, terror, and the future of reason, This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience, and The Case for Faith: A Journal ... ... a charity thrift store down the street from my work which I must pass every day. So of course I went in and got books:
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
Constantine's Sword by James Carroll
Shadowmarch by Tad Williams
Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage by Jacques Barzun
Irr ... Finished Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card yesterday, now I'm detoxing with The End of Faith by Sam Harris.
Afterwards, Shadow of the Giant. 200 Religion
A few of the more interesting ones from the 200s:
200 End of Faith, Harris
230 Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman
271.53 The Jesuit and the Incas: the Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, Hyland
282 Hildegard of Bingen: the Woman of Her Age, Maddocks
284.3 Buddhism ... ... I third the recommendation of Under the Banner of Heaven. From my library I recommend these non-Christian books:
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
The Jesuit and the Incas; The extraordinary life of Padre Blas Valera (history, languages and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese ... ... have been a bit older when I read that for the first time.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
It's a tie between Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges and Skin Folk by Nalo ... Finished The End Of Faith by Sam Harris...
Wow! I can definitely see why people don't care much for Mr. Harris. He's a bit of an @SS. While I don't disagree with everything he says, I find his attitudes and some of his beliefs offensive (and I'm basically on his side). His book is ... The End of Faith by Sam Harris. Read for a book club. I finished The End of Faith from last month, which was quite a bit different from what I was expecting. I've started Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction which isn't going so well, as she started out with a lecture about how evil Westerners pigeonholed the eastern religions and how her ... I just read a really interesting account of Buddhism in Sam Harris's The End of Faith. Harris sees Buddhism not as a religion at all (in that in requires no "faith" or acceptance of irrational beliefs) but as a source of spiritual wisdom that can teach people specifically how to turn off the ... I just started The End of Faith and I am enjoying it so far. I read Hitchens after reading The God Delusion and The End of Faith. I had heard that he was more "hardcore" then either Dawkins or Harris. I found that not to be the case, he seemed to be the most reasonable of the three. I think it was worth reading, although I don't think it's going to ... OC: The End of Faith, The Girls of Slender Means EX: Tropic of Cancer, Invisible Cities, End of the Chapter (Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness, Over the River), Mostly Harmless (finishing the Hitchhiker series) Invisible Cities ****
by Italo Calvino
9/14/08
The End of Faith
by Sam Harris
9/14/08
Maid in Waiting ***
by John Galsworthy
9/14/08 ... The Black Hole War by Leonard Susskind ***
8. Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin ***½
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9. The End of Faith by Sam Harris **½
10. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas by Frederick Douglass *****
12. The Gulag Archipelago: Vol. 3 by Aleksandr I. Solzhe ... ... you guys, but I just read god is not Great over the last few days and I adored it. It's so much more accessible than The End of Faith in my humble opinion. I know several of you have said you think Hitchens is an 'angry' writer, but I didn't sense that much at all. I did think he comes ... 40. 100 Bullets: The Hard Way, by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso
41. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, by Sam Harris
Cutting it close here! I was really disappointed by End of Faith and plan to write a review of it on my profile. The first part was ... ... A Book of Poisonous Contemplations which I suspect resonated with the Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris books (among others) already in my library!
Last night our church book group discussed The End of Faith. I took along Dawkins, Dennett, and Hitchens. For what seems to me greater wisdom, I took along some Bertrand Russell. Then I had Alister McGrath, Frank Tipler, and others.
I have uncovered parking at my house. When I ... ... I went to sleep last night.
I'm just trying to understand it all. Oh, and the church book group is going to discuss The End of Faith on Wednesday, and I want a handle on some of the peripheral texts.
Oh, and I read the first essay in Narcissus Leaves the Pool by Joseph Epstein ... ... Almanac 2007
B—Philosophy (general) The Courtier and the Heretic
BL—Religions, Mythology, Rationalism The End of Faith
BP—Islam, Baha'ism, Theosophy Underground
BR—Christianity Letter to a Christian Nation
BS—The Bible Lion's Honey
BV—Practical Theology Lu ... ... entirely ignore opera for long. The church book group has me rereading fiction, Independent People, but we will take on The End of Faith on the first Wednesday of November, which may or may not be fiction.
Robert ... accident of finances that I have not purchased God is not great. I have read God delusion and Breaking the spell and End of Faith, but I do not think I have entered all 3 into LibraryThing yet.
Often, I am a little slow in absorbing what I read. I feel a fairly strong need to reread ... To enter the debate on books about religion....I've only read one, The End of Faith and although I'm not a religious person myself, I was shocked by some of Mr. Harris's statements. It certainly provoked the most combative discussion my book club ever had.
I think Yann Martel put it best ... ... binge that was prompted by God is Not Great. So, I just finished Letter to Christian Nation and have begun to read End of Faith.
Lullabies for Little Criminals
Valleys of the Assassins
Wicked
The End of Faith
The Book Thief The Finishing School
The End of Faith
The End of the Line
When All is Said and Done
The Last Crossing ... read a lecture called The Reality of Islam by Sam Harris. The author is not a fan of religion and wrote a book called The End of Faith in which he explains why he thinks that religion hurts people instead of helping them.
In the lecture, he writes that Islam extremism is a part of the ... Anyone want to discuss Harris's position on pacifism, which he outlines in The End of Faith?
He considers it "flagrantly immoral," but seems to characterize it with the same absolutist, slippery-slope methodology that one would expect from an ideological conservative. There are degrees of ... ... find find some "liberal extremists" too), but one can still take issue with the moderates as well. Harris does this in The End of Faith (one probably should read it if he or she reads Dawkins' book, and vice versa (I'm about a quarter of the way through both).
Early in the book, Harris ... ... by David Mills
3.) Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell
4.) Critiques of God edited by Peter A. Angeles
5.) The End of Faith by Sam Harris
6.) The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (though I generally do not prefer him due to his radical atheist agenda)
7.) Natural Atheism by ... This morning I finished The End of Faith and then read Letter to a Christian Nation, both by Sam Harris. I have now started Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit - Essays on Native American Life Today by Leslie Marmon Silko. ... There is a good article in the Nov 2006 issue of WIRED on the New Atheists (Richard Dawkins The God Delusion, Sam Harris The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, Daniel Dennett Breaking the Spell, etc.). They believe that it is wrong to perpetuate a belief that has no ... After struggling to get through The End of Faith by Sam Harris (which is good but I'm just not in the mood), I put it down this morning and switched to Swimming at Suppertime, a collection of personal essays by Carol Wasserman. With a rainy nor'easter outside, a fire in the fireplace, ... I started The End of Faith by Sam Harris but have been sidetracked a bit because I went to a book-signing on Saturday with Ralph Nader for his new book The Seventeen Traditions. So now I'm carrying both books around the house with me. I also had a house guest for the weekend so that ... ... them for my birthday, but as I would have bought them eventually (they came off my wishlist!) I'll mention them anyway - End of Faith, Europas idéhistoria: Världens ordning and Europas idéhistoria: Mörkret i människan. The last two is nonfictional philosophical works on the history ... ... - and a non-believer in god(s) for the last twenty-five of my forty-four years. But Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris (The End of Faith : religion, terror, and the future of reason, Letter to a Christian Nation), Robert Spencer, and others have me wondering seriously whether religious ... ... e.
I've read and enjoyed books mentioned here plus others --
Conservatives Without Conscience, Bush on the Couch, The End of Faith, The Audacity of Hope, but I often think that the people who would benefit most from the information might not be the ones who can really listen because ... ... interviewer was hostile! But a lot more books these days are speaking out against religion (see the link/suggestions for The End of Faith) -- and no wonder. Right now, we are so aware of how doctrine and dogma (not faith or humanism) are leading us away from being the human race we want to ... Well, hmmm . . . one of my favorite nonfiction books from last year's reading list was The End of Faith by Sam Harris. But if I recommended that on this thread, I'd have to don my asbsestos suit! ;-) ... by Terry Pratchett. I put it down a couple of weeks ago to catch up on some other reading. I'll also be starting The Terror by Dan Simmons. After those I'll pick a book from my ever growing to be read stack. A lot of negative reviews seem to be cookie-cutter: quick pass over The End of Faith and Breaking the Spell, then longer criticism of The God Delusion for not being The Miracle of Theism, but without actually mentioning Mackie. I admit it. I borrowed a book from the library yesterday because of the cover - The Terror by Dan Simmons. (The touchstone is not working for the book.) Actually, I picked it up because of the cover and decided to keep it when I flipped through a few pages. I have no idea when I'll start ... ... lived in very small communities.
4. A Breed Apart: a novel of Wild Bill Hickok, a noir Western by Max McCoy.
5. The End of Faith by Sam Harris. One of the intellectually bravest books I've ever read.
... fairness:
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
Armed Madhouse
The End of Faith
etc. ... he uses for religion.
For what it's worth, I haven't read the God Delusion yet, but Sam Harris's similarly polemical The End of Faith also gives Buddhism far too easy a ride (Harris also treads far more lightly on Judaism than he does on Islam), so I'd certainly agree that there's a lack ... ... would recommend Dawkins and am currently on the waiting list for the God Delusion. I also just finished Sam Harris book End of Faith
Thanks
Amylphil domsablos, I'm highly doubtful. If that were the case, I can't imagine how much further The End of Faith by Sam Harris could go towards vilifying, not only Islam, Christianity. ... Landscape of Religion by Scott Atran, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris, and The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
The notes and bibilographies in these ...
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