Review of 'Letter to a Christian Nation' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Finally carved out a few hours to read this classic. Sam Harris has a gift of boiling down profound concepts into short (this book is just 90 pages) and persuasive arguments.
“Clearly, it is time we learned to meet our emotional needs without embracing the preposterous. We must find ways to invoke the power of ritual and to mark those transitions in every human life that demand profundity— birth, marriage, death—without lying to ourselves about the nature of reality. Only then will the practice of raising our children to believe that they are Christian, Muslim, or Jewish be widely recognized as the ludicrous obscenity that it is. And only then will we stand a chance of healing the deepest and most dangerous fractures in our world.”
More quotes here: www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/563115-letter-to-a-christian-nation
