How would we react, he wonders, if President Bush replaced the word “God” with “Apollo” in his public comments? There really is no difference, states Harris. And anti-intellectual, requiring believers to accept without question notions that they would summarily reject in all other arenas of life. But he is an equal-opportunity opponent, so he also assails, in phrases that coruscate with sarcasm, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and by extension all the world’s religions.
Harris believes the most dangerous religion today is Islam and quotes several pages of passages from the Koran to illustrate his contention that it is manifestly not a religion of peace and tolerance. People cannot, he continues, assert that the virgin birth is true because it is in the Bible and simultaneously decline to murder their children for apostasy, as Deuteronomy prescribes. Sacred books, Harris declares, are either sacred or not religious adherents must therefore either believe everything in them or question everything. In a debut certain to anger anyone who is not an atheist, the author argues that religious faith is the root of all evil.
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