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The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists
Written by Ravi Zacharias
Narrated by Simon Vance
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When you pray, are you talking to a God who exists? Or is God nothing more than your 'imaginary friend,' like a playmate contrived by a lonely and imaginative child?
When author Sam Harris attacked Christianity in Letter to a Christian Nation, reviewers called the book 'marvelous' and a generation of readers---hundreds of thousands of them---were drawn to his message. Deeply troubled, Dr. Ravi Zacharias knew that he had to respond. In The End of Reason, Zacharias underscores the dependability of the Bible along with his belief in the power and goodness of God. He confidently refutes Harris's claims that God is nothing more than a figment of one's imagination and that Christians regularly practice intolerance and hatred around the globe.
If you found Sam Harris's Letter to a Christian Nation compelling, the book you are holding is exactly what you need. Dr. Zacharias exposes 'the utter bankruptcy of this worldview.'
And if you haven't read Harris' book, Ravi's response remains a powerful, passionate, irrefutably sound set of arguments for Christian thought. The clarity and hope in these pages reach out to readers who know and follow God as well as to those who reject God.
When author Sam Harris attacked Christianity in Letter to a Christian Nation, reviewers called the book 'marvelous' and a generation of readers---hundreds of thousands of them---were drawn to his message. Deeply troubled, Dr. Ravi Zacharias knew that he had to respond. In The End of Reason, Zacharias underscores the dependability of the Bible along with his belief in the power and goodness of God. He confidently refutes Harris's claims that God is nothing more than a figment of one's imagination and that Christians regularly practice intolerance and hatred around the globe.
If you found Sam Harris's Letter to a Christian Nation compelling, the book you are holding is exactly what you need. Dr. Zacharias exposes 'the utter bankruptcy of this worldview.'
And if you haven't read Harris' book, Ravi's response remains a powerful, passionate, irrefutably sound set of arguments for Christian thought. The clarity and hope in these pages reach out to readers who know and follow God as well as to those who reject God.
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Reviews for The End of Reason
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well written, well argued - simply brilliant. This book will upset (most likely enrage) many new atheists, but hopefully it will also change the minds and hearts of honest non-believers.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was a response of great magnitude to Modern Atheist
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very profound rational defending Christianity with utter respect for unbelievers
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A brief but compelling book on Christian faith and its response to the New Atheists, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins et al.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So much great information!!!!
Inspiring and jaw dropping responses.
Loved the work put in. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sorry to be a wet blanketThis is the ninth of the responses to the New Atheists that I've read, with six more waiting on my bookshelf. I'm glad that several people seem to love Zacharias's book, but from my perspective a 3-star "It's OK" rating was the appropriate one. He makes some good points, but I just can't work up the enthusiasm for him that others can. I certainly don't see the resemblance in him to C. S. Lewis that others do.While the book is fairly cheap, it's very short, so you're paying about ten bucks an hour for whatever enlightenment you're achieving. The book felt disorganized to me, with no real chapters but just one big section carved up into little 2- or 3- page thoughts. I felt it needed fewer expressions of indignation and fewer Indian folktales, and more historical, philosophical, and scriptural insights. What there were of the latter were generally good, but I felt they suffered from being presented sporadically rather than systematically.I mean no offense to those who feel blessed by Zacharias's ministry, and, as they say, your mileage may vary.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Clear, rich & insightful. Shows the logical inconsistencies in Harris’ ‘The End of Faith’ and goes beyond that
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As always, Ravi's reasoning helps deepen my faith. I shall pray more fervently for atheists.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very well written. I hope many people read this and gain some understanding.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Such a great response to Sam Harris' misguided review on Christianity.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Ravi makes classic "defense of faith" arguments without really adding to the discussion. His thesis, that people have so much to gain from Christianity's moral framework does not address violence within religious texts. While his discourse on morality uses philosophical language it is decidedly religious.
Christians who argue that something can not come from nothing, therefore there must be a creator; have not grasped the burden of proof that is nessary to make such claims.
I admit Sam and Ravi both employ appeals to emotion, but Sam does so and supports his arguments with reasoning. Ravi, you're preaching to the choir. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brilliant!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I had a lot of trouble following this book. I don't know whether the author did a good job in presenting his points or not.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ravi Zacharias’s brilliant perspective on life is the stuff of which great philosophy is made. "The End of Reason", his latest work, is compelling, engaging, thought-provoking and entertaining. In it, Zacharias takes on the current generation of influential atheists such as Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and especially Sam Harris through lines of reasoning that one moment had me laughing out loud and the next pausing to reflect on their grand profundity.Zacharias unabashedly sets out “to unpack the systematic contradictions between the atheistic worldview Sam Harris espouses and the assumptions he makes.” Indeed, Harris’s popular best-seller, "Letter to a Christian Nation", is full of sophomoric claims and mockeries. Zacharias begins by attacking Harris’s foundational assumptions with quotes from other powerful scientists and philosophers from around the globe. He shows that even the some of the most learned scholars, ironically from the opposite side of the debate, find Sam Harris to be an embarrassment to their atheistic cause.The author then proceeds to answer many of Christianity’s critics’ most appealing arguments. His godly confidence, sprinkled with a refreshing dose of levity, is the perfect antidote for some of life’s most troubling quandaries. Zacharias doesn’t shy away from even the most controversial subjects as he addresses questions about the existence of pain and suffering, human cloning, the pursuit of pleasure, abortion, morality, Jesus’ deity, Evil, and even other religions. Ultimately however, regardless of empirical evidence, science, mathematics, and philosophy, the crux of atheisms’ bankruptcy is its hopelessness. Ravi Zacharias, in stark contrast, shows the beauty of Jesus’ love for us and its inherent hope for the security of our future. My favorite quote from "The End of Reason" succinctly expresses this idea: “Given a starting point of primordial slime, one is forced to live apart from a moral law, with no meaning, no real understanding of love, and no hope.”This little hardback will be the ideal addition to the library of any Christian who wants to better defend and understand his faith in the world’s constant onslaught of opposing “facts”. "The End of Reason" is chock full of food for thought for those, too, who have found themselves dazzled and tempted by the rationale of the new atheism as touted by the likes of Dawkins and Harris.
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