The End of Faith Audiobook (Free)

An impassioned plea for reason in a world divided by faith. This essential and timely work delivers a startling evaluation of the clash of trust and reason nowadays. Harris gives a vivid historic tour of mankind’s determination to suspend reason and only religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are accustomed to justify dangerous behavior and sometimes heinous crimes. He asserts that in the darkness of weapons of mass destruction, the world can no longer tolerate sights that pit one true god against another. Most controversially, he argues that people cannot afford moderate lip services to religious beliefs — an lodging that only window blinds us to the real perils of fundamentalism. While caution against the encroachment of organized religion into globe politics, Harris also pulls on new evidence from neuroscience and insights from beliefs to explore spirituality being a natural, brain-based need. He calls on us to invoke that need in going for a secular humanistic method of solving the issues of this world.