I can tell you what kind of world we would live in. Ok just imagine a text like this, it comes down through the ages, that contains a line like that. If the Quran was exactly the way it is, but it contained a single extra line, and that line read: ‘If you see a red haired woman on your doorstep at sunset, cut her head off’. It is also illustrated by the following quote from Harris: More specifically, the book uses an example of extreme behavior directly caused by scriptural interpretation, a point Harris often raises when talking about, say, terrorism and Islam.
They may or may not also wish to inflict violence on others, both for personal/pragmatic reasons and as a direct result of doctrine or prophecy (read the book to find out!). In this case the Brotherhood of Mutilation radically alter their own bodies as a direct result of their beliefs. It features the links between religious belief and violent or extreme actions. Last Days is a relevant point of discussion for this subreddit for a couple of reasons, namely: I really recommend it for adventurous or curious readers. I don’t want to say more about the plot as I don’t want to spoil it for anyone, but the book is intriguing, unsettling, and disturbing. The belief and practice is inspired by a literal interpretation of Matthew 5:29–30:Īnd if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee…And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee This sect/cult believes that amputating body parts brings one closer to God, and having more parts of one’s body removed creates a greater closeness to divinity and increased authority/standing in the faith. Kline, an ex-detective suffering with depression following the amputation of his hand by ‘the gentleman with the cleaver’, is ordered to solve a murder which took place within a compound run by a strange sect/cult of Christianity. (In addition there was a recent thread about the decline of the novel, so this seems timely.) A brief description of the plot is as follows: I wanted to recommend it here because both the book itself and the life of Evenson the person overlap with various interests of Sam Harris (and hence this subreddit).
I’ve just finished reading an excellent short novel, which is Last Days by Brian Evenson.
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