The Unending Faith of Sam Harris

Fri, 2006-09-22 06:22 — SH

It's been two years since I've read Sam Harris' book "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason." At the time, I dismissed his book as uninteresting and disappointing. However, Harris became more and more prominent in secular community, virtually reaching a status of de facto spokesperson for the non-believers everywhere. He wrote a second book since then and he becomes increasingly more vocal on the topics of secularism, reason and foreign policy (of all things). While I agree with his aims and rhetoric that claim to promote a secular worldview, I find that when it comes to politics and history his evidence is lacking, reasoning unsound and some of his views are disturbing.

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