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IS FAITH AN IMPEDIMENT TO PEACE? RELIGION DOESN'T KILL PEOPLE; PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE
2004
Overview
Sam Harris has echoed the sentiment in a new book, \"The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason.\" Harris, a foe of not just religious extremists but moderates too, writes, \"Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal,' or they will unmake our world.\" Harris contends that religious faith is \"the devil's masterpiece.\" The notion that religion is the enemy of peace is at odds with the history of the 20th century. Hitler's National Socialists were driven by reason, science and temporal considerations - not by prayer, liturgy or the hope of heaven. Uncle Joe Stalin's calm barbarism sprang not from his youthful intention to be a priest, but from his later spurning of faith-based values. And Mao was religious - and prolific - in his goal of exterminating religious people. Religion says we must love our enemies; science and reason say we are merely animals trying to perpetuate our own line at the expense of rivals. Religion says we gain when we sacrifice; science and reason cannot make that case. Religion says every human is made just a little lower than the angels, crafted in the image of God, and imbued with a great dignity; science says we're a random accident that will be replaced by future accidents. Religion preaches altruism, but altruism is never reasonable.
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Los Angeles Newspaper Group
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