This important and timely book delivers
a startling analysis of the clash of faith
and reason in today's world. Harris offers
a vivid historical tour of mankind's
willingness to suspend reason in favor of
religious beliefs, even when those beliefs
are used to justify harmful behavior and
sometimes heinous crimes. He asserts that
in the shadow of weapons of mass
destruction, we can no longer tolerate
views that pit one true god against
another. Most controversially, he argues
that we cannot afford moderate lip service
to religion -- an accommodation that only
blinds us to the real perils of
fundamentalism. While warning against the
encroachment of organized religion into
world politics, Harris also draws on new
evidence from neuroscience and insights
from philosophy to explore spirituality as
a biological, brain-based need. He calls
on us to invoke that need in taking a
secular humanistic approach to solving the
problems of this world.
The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and
Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and
the Meaning of Life
If philosophers duked it out in
Atlantic City, The Question of God
would be the heavyweight title fight:
Sigmund Freud, atheist, founder of
psychoanalysis, and "discoverer" of the
unconscious, versus C.S. Lewis, Christian
apologist, literary critic, and fiction
writer. Armand M. Nicholi Jr. referees
these two potent and popular modern
thinkers in a match contesting God's
existence.
The God
problem is still with us...
Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science
and the Biology of Belief
Over the centuries, theories have
abounded as to why human beings have a
seemingly irrational attraction to God and
religious experiences. In Why God Won't Go
Away authors Andrew Newberg, M.D., Eugene
D'Aquili, M.D., and Vince Rause offer a
startlingly simple, yet scientifically
plausible opinion: humans seek God because
our brains are biologically programmed to
do so.
