An impassioned plea for reason in a global divided by beliefs. This important and timely work provides a startling evaluation of the clash of trust and reason nowadays. Harris offers a vivid historic tour of mankind’s determination to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are accustomed to justify dangerous behavior and occasionally heinous crimes. He asserts that in the darkness of weapons of mass destruction, the world can’t tolerate sights that pit one true god against another. Most controversially, he argues that we cannot afford moderate lip support to religious beliefs — an lodging that only blinds us to the real perils of fundamentalism. While warning against the encroachment of arranged religion into globe politics, Harris also pulls on new evidence from neuroscience and insights from idea to explore spirituality as a natural, brain-based need. He phone calls on us to invoke that need in going for a secular humanistic approach to solving the problems of this globe.