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A 5 page essay that offers a book review and discussion of Harris's The End of Faith, Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason, which, first of all, examines the areas of the author's argument in which, Harris is shockingly frank, but undeniably correct, before addressing the point at which Harris strays into propositions that are not only shocking but antithetical to humanistic goals. No additional sources cited.
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our survival" (14). Harris argues that the worlds great religions have within their sacred texts injunctions that lead people, "inexorably, to kill one another" (12). While frequently shocking and thought
provoking, it cannot be denied that many of Harriss observations and commentaries are true. This review of Harriss book will examine, first of all, the areas in which, Harris
is shockingly frank, but undeniably correct, before addressing the point at which Harris strays into propositions that are not only shocking but antithetical to humanistic goals. This section of the
review will demonstrate that in his humanistic exuberance to make his point, Harris goes too far, as he would have civilization throw the baby out with the bath water, to
use an old, but apt clich?. Harris begins with a scenario that pictures a young Islamic man, entering a bus, waiting patiently for the moment when the bus is
full and his death can have the greatest collateral devastation, and committing suicide with a dirty bomb that kills not only fellow passengers, but also many people on the street.
Harris then describes the reaction of his parents and community and their pride in the young mans "achievement." Harris points out that the motives of a suicide bomber are inevitably
coached in terms that refer to economics or politics, with faith itself "always, and everywhere, exonerated" (13). He castigates the trend that regards criticizing "a persons ideas about God and
the afterlife" as impolite in a way that "criticizing his ideas about physics or history is not" (13). As this suggests, Harris regards a great deal of religious belief
as totally ridiculous and, therefore, inherently dangerous, as our "technical advances in the art of war have finally rendered our religious differences-and hence our religious beliefs-antithetical to our survival" (13-14).
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