The End of Faith by Sam Harris is a great brawling fistfight of a book. What Sam Harris argues in The End of Faith is that these beliefs are fundamentally irrational, and that the "real world" cost of maintaining such ideas is too high, resulting in never-ending warfare between groups and barbaric practices that are condoned because they are seen as part of a religious "sacred space". For many, without such beliefs, life on earth looks like a chaotic, dog-eat-dog free for all, with tragedy at every turn. All religions attempt to solve the problems of death and justice, usually suggesting that faithful people don't truly die, that that there is life after death, and that "the faithful" get their just rewards for their lives and conduct while on earth.
Human beings know that they are going to die that bad things often happen to good people, and justice, on this earth, is often hard to come by. People who believe that the earth is flat are not dissenting geographers people who deny that the Holocaust ever occurred are not dissenting historians people who think that the God created the Universe in 4004 BC are not dissenting cosmologists and we will see that people who practice barbarism like "honor killing" are not dissenting ethicists." - p.
InspireSeattle - Book Review: The End of Faith by Sam HarrisĪ review of "The End of Faith" by James Scanlan, Ph.
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