Between Godliness and Godlessness (Review of Sam Harris's new book)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/opinion/sunday/frank-bruni-between-godliness-and-godlessness.html
AUG. 30, 2014
Credit Ben Wiseman
Frank Bruni
ALMOST midway through Sam Harriss new book, Waking Up, he paints a scene that will shock many of his fans, who know him as one of the countrys most prominent and articulate atheists.
He describes a walk in Jesus footsteps, and the way he was touched by it.
This happened on an afternoon on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee, atop the mount where Jesus is believed to have preached his most famous sermon, Harris writes. As I gazed at the surrounding hills, a feeling of peace came over me. It soon grew to a blissful stillness that silenced my thoughts. In an instant, the sense of being a separate self an I or a me vanished.
Had Harris at last found God? And is Waking Up a stop-the-presses admission an epiphany that he slumbered and lumbered through the darkness for too long?
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