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Title: Great Undergrad Thesis
Review: I was really looking forward to reading this book, but only got about 20 pages into it when I realized that it was reading like a fleshed-out undergrad philosophy thesis, self-indulgent "witty" endnotes and all. I looked in the back cover, and sure enough, it was written by a philosophy undergrad at Stanford. Now, there's nothing wrong with that as such, but if you are interested in real scholarship on the topic of the influence of religion (particularly fundamentalist faith) on the world, then there is really no greater tome at large today than Karen Armstrong's "The Battle for God". I was genuinely shocked to see that Mr. Harris did not cite to that work a single time. He does get off a few good bon-mots, but that's not worth the price of the book. If you want solid scholarship, please read Ms. Armstrong's book.
