The Good Book.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Dunno if anyone has posted this before...A quick search revealed nothing...


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religio ... tered.html

Remember this song from Sunday School? "The best book to read is the Bible/ The best book to read is the Bible/ If you read it every day/It will help you on your way/ The best book to read is the Bible."

Not any more it isn't, at least if philosopher A C Grayling and his fellow humanists, secularists and atheists have their way. This week sees the publication of The Good Book: A Secular Bible by...
Well, it isn't by anyone. Rather, as the book jacket informs us in a typographical style imitative of the Christian template it seeks to displace, it is "made by" A C Grayling, in a process of redaction, editing and re-writing "in just the same way as the Judaeo-Christian Bible was made".

This week, too, the American neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith, publishes The Moral Landscape, which argues that religion is not the chief authority on meaning, values and a good life. The Bible, he tells me, "is about as authoritative on the subject of morality as it is on astronomy...

Anyone heard of this or read any more excerpts?

Will anyone here be buying it?

[charlou]

I've liked what I've heard from A C Grayling so might have a look at a copy if I see one in a bookshop, just out of curiosity. The premise of Sam Harris's book, The Moral Landscape, doesn't seem to cover anything new for me, so I'd probably give it a miss.