Letter to a Christian Nation
Author: Sam Harris
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 57
ISBN-13: 0307265773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA criticism of Christianity from the secularist point of view.
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Letter to a Christian Nation
Author: Sam Harris
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2006-09-19
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 0307266605
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the new afterword by the author: Humanity has had a long fascination with blood sacrifice. In fact, it has been by no means uncommon for a child to be born into this world only to be patiently and lovingly reared by religious maniacs, who believe that the best way to keep the sun on its course or to ensure a rich harvest is to lead him by tender hand into a field or to a mountaintop and bury, butcher, or burn him alive as offering to an invisible God. The notion that Jesus Christ died for our sins and that his death constitutes a successful propitiation of a “loving” God is a direct and undisguised inheritance of the superstitious bloodletting that has plagued bewildered people throughout history. . .
Letter to a Christian Nation
Author: Sam Harris
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-05-31
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1446464903
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A hard-hitting polemic against religious fundamentalism" - Foreword by Richard Dawkins ' Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these communications have come from Christians. This is ironic, as Christians generally imagine that no faith imparts the virtues of love and forgiveness more effectively than their own. The truth is that many who claim to be transformed by Christ's love are deeply, even murderously, intolerant of criticism. While we may want to ascribe this to human nature, it is clear that such hatred draws considerable support from the Bible. How do I know this? The most disturbed of my correspondents always cite chapter and verse.' So begins Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris's hard-hitting rebuttal of religious fundamentalism and blind belief . With deceptively simple arguments, he demolishes the myths on which Christianity was built, challenges believers to open their eyes to the contradictions of their faith and warns us of the dangers of America's ever increasing unification of Church and State. Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestseller The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason and winner of the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-fiction. He is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University and is now completing a doctorate in neuroscience. He lives in New York.
Letter from a Christian Citizen
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Publisher: American Vision
Published:
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 0915815753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristian Nation
Author: Frederic C. Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-07
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0393240118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen President McCain dies and Sarah Palin becomes president, America stumbles down a path toward theocracy, realizing too late that the Christian right meant precisely what it said.
Letter to a Christian Nation
Author: Sam Harris
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-01-08
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0307278778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the new afterword by the author: Humanity has had a long fascination with blood sacrifice. In fact, it has been by no means uncommon for a child to be born into this world only to be patiently and lovingly reared by religious maniacs, who believe that the best way to keep the sun on its course or to ensure a rich harvest is to lead him by tender hand into a field or to a mountaintop and bury, butcher, or burn him alive as offering to an invisible God. The notion that Jesus Christ died for our sins and that his death constitutes a successful propitiation of a “loving” God is a direct and undisguised inheritance of the superstitious bloodletting that has plagued bewildered people throughout history. . .
Letters to an American Christian
Author: Bruce Riley Ashford
Publisher: B&H Books
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781535905138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor, professor (Southeastern Seminary), and Fox op- ed columnist Bruce Riley Ashford writers a series of letters to a young college student who is struggling to make sense of how to be a Christian amid contemporary American politics.
One Nation Under God
Author: Kevin M. Kruse
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2015-04-14
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0465040640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s. To fight the "slavery" of FDR's New Deal, businessmen enlisted religious activists in a campaign for "freedom under God" that culminated in the election of their ally Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. The new president revolutionized the role of religion in American politics. He inaugurated new traditions like the National Prayer Breakfast, as Congress added the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and made "In God We Trust" the country's first official motto. Church membership soon soared to an all-time high of 69 percent. Americans across the religious and political spectrum agreed that their country was "one nation under God." Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under God reveals how an unholy alliance of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics to this day.
Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?
Author: John Fea
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2011-02-16
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1611640881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFea offers an even-handed primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the title's question from a historical perspective, helping readers see past the emotional rhetoric of today to the recorded facts of our past. Readers on both sides of the issues will appreciate that this book occupies a middle ground, noting the good points and the less-nuanced arguments of both sides and leading us always back to the primary sources that our shared American history comprises.
Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant?
Author: Preston Jones
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2010-09-28
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 0830868127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreston Jones (a Christian history professor and music fan) and Greg Graffin (a punk rocker with a Ph.D. in zoology) conversed via e-mail about knowledge, evil, biology, evolution, religion, God, destiny and the nature of reality. While they find some places to agree, neither one convinces the other of his perspective. Which worldview is more plausible? You decide.
