上期的“新闻周刊”介绍了老道和另外两个作者的新书。 这期“新闻周刊”在9月11日这天出版， 文章希望老美反思基督教在应对当前冲突里所起的作用 .........
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The New Naysayers

In the midst of religious revival, three scholars argue that atheism is smarter

By Jerry Adler

Newsweek

Sept. 11, 2006 issue - Americans answered the atrocities of September 11, overwhelmingly, with faith. Attacked in the name of God, they turned to God for comfort; in the week after the attacks, nearly 70 percent said they
were praying more than usual. Confronted by a hatred that seemed inexplicable, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson proclaimed that God was mad at America because it harbored feminists, gays and civil libertarians. Sam Harris, then a 34-year- old graduate student in neuroscience, had a different reaction. On Sept. 12, he began a book. If, he reasoned, young men were slaughtering people in the name of religionsomething that had been going on since long
before 2001, of coursethen perhaps the problem was religion itself. The book would be called "The End of Faith," which to most Americans probably sounds like a lament. To Harris it is something to be encouraged.
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