Textbook Discounter: Social Sciences: Letter to a Christian Nation (Vintage)

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Letter to a Christian Nation (Vintage)
	Author: Sam Harris Publisher: Vintage Category: Book List Price: ~~$11.00~~ Buy New: $5.91 You Save: $5.09 (46%) New (42) Used (14) from $5.07 Rating: 621 reviews Sales Rank: 3068 Media: Paperback Pages: 144 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.5 ISBN: 0307278778 Dewey Decimal Number: 277.3083 EAN: 9780307278777 ASIN: 0307278778 Publication Date: January 8, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Condition: 100% Brand New! - Ships Today! Identical to Amazon's book in every way. Flawless! Not a cheap Remainder or Book Club Copy! *We recommend Expedited Shipping option for much faster mail delivery


Editorial Reviews: Product Description From 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. . .