Why Is Sam Harris a Best-Selling Atheist?
There are at least 450 atheists who are so pissed off about all the religious belief in the world that theyve sat down to write one or more very decent books on how there is no God. You really have to wonder then, why so many American readers would choose to put Sam Harris on best-seller lists across the country. Its not like hes a good writer or anything. Sample Harris sentence: One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the 21st century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest personal concerns–about ethics, spiritual experience and the inevitability of human suffering–in ways that are not flagrantly irrational. Never mind the cheap use of a new (Christ-based) century to lever urgency into his argument; Harris cant make any kind of clear point. He uses the term deepest personal concerns to mean principal issues that atheists and believers have jousted over for centuries. The real deepest personal concerns for human beings physical appearance, social stat
