Are atheists correct?
Cover via Amazon Is the Christian faith intellectual nonsense? Are Christians deluded? “ If God exists and takes an interest in the affairs of human beings, his will is not inscrutable,” writes Sam Harris about the 2004 tsunami in Letter to a Christian Nation . “The only thing inscrutable here is that so many otherwise rational men and women can deny the unmitigated horror of these events and think this is the height of moral wisdom” (p. 48). In his article “God’s Dupes,” Harris argues, “Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music” ( The Los Angeles Times , March 15, 2007). Ironically, Harris’ first book is entitled The End of Faith , but it should really be called “ The End of Reason ,” as it demonstrates again that the mind that is alienated from God in the name of reason can become totally irrational. Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins suggests that t