The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists (2008) by Ravi Zacharias
In 2004 & 2006, Sam
Harris, an atheist scientist, wrote two anti-religious books entitled, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the
Future of Reason and Letter to a
Christian Nation. Before and after that there were other books also published
such as Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion,
Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great,
Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell,
and more (Harris, Dawkins, late Hitchens, and Dennett are called the Four
Horsemen, main spokespersons of the New Atheism Movement, I think Lawrence
Klaus should be the 5th Horse. These are fascinated read except for Dennett's,
his books are too philosophical).
So in this book, Ravi
Zacharias, a well-known Christian apologist, the founder, and president of Ravi Zacharias International Ministry
(RZIM), response to Harris' utterly bankrupt worldview and hatred toward
anything religious and faith-based. Ravi in this short book (only 128 pages)
eloquently - with his over 30 years of experience in the apologetic, vast amount of
knowledge in Christian doctrines, world philosophies, and religions - explain
the true nature of evil, the foundation of morality, the meaning of life, the
important of hope and love, the necessity for God, the Creator, and more.
The strength of The End of
Reason, in my opinion, lies not only in Ravi’s debunking of Harris’ core
arguments, but in uncovering the path down which new atheism leads its
followers. Ravi exposes the reality that the
atheist worldview is inescapably bleak, with no basis for love, hope,
morality or the value of human life – that “the emperor has no clothes, and through his verbal magic Harris is trying hard to
cover him up.”
My favorite quote from
this book: “The worldview of the
Christian faith is simple enough. God has put enough into this world to make
faith in him a most reasonable thing. But he has left enough out to make it
impossible to live by sheer reason alone.” Amen!
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