Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Harris, Sam |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 1/8/2008 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
From the new afterword by the author:
Humanity has had a long fascination with bloodsacrifice. In fact, it has been by no means uncommon for a child to be born intothis world only to be patiently and lovingly reared by religious maniacs, who believethat the best way to keep the sun on its course or to ensure a rich harvest is tolead him by tender hand into a field or to a mountaintop and bury, butcher, or burnhim alive as offering to an invisible God. The notion that Jesus Christ died forour sins and that his death constitutes a successful propitiation of a “loving” Godis a direct and undisguised inheritance of the superstitious bloodletting that hasplagued bewildered people throughout history. . .
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