{"product_id":"letter-to-a-christian-nationisbn-9780307278777","title":"Letter to a Christian Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the new afterword by the author:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHumanity 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. . .\u003c\/p\u003e\"A breath of fresh fire.\" —\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e“I dare you to read this book...it will not leave you unchanged. Read it if it is the last thing you do.” —Richard Dawkins, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Selfish Gene\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe God Delusion\u003c\/i\u003e“It’s a shame that not everyone in this country will read Sam Harris’ marvelous little book \u003ci\u003eLetter to a Christian Nation.\u003c\/i\u003e They won’t but they should.” —Leonard Susskind, Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics, Stanford UniversitySam Harris is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebest seller, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. He is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University and has studied both Eastern and Western religious traditions, along with a variety of contemplative disciplines, for twenty years. Mr. Harris is now completing a doctorate in neuroscience, studying the neural basis of belief, disbelief, and uncertainty with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). His work has been discussed in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Economist, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist, \u003c\/i\u003eamong many other journals, and he has made television appearances on The O'Reilly Factor, Scarborough Country, Faith Under Fire, and Book TV.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303027298533,"sku":"NP9780307278777","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307278777.jpg?v=1730752789","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/letter-to-a-christian-nationisbn-9780307278777","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}