pdf Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief مجانا للكاتب هوستن سميث
I would place these pages last except that beginning with them may increase the chance that the reader will hear me out. I think I have a different window onto the world, one that enables me to see things that others do not. I was born into a loving family whose parents committed their lives to the highest calling they could conceive—that of being missionaries to China. Sacrifices were to be expected, and (in the disease- ridden China of that time) they arrived on schedule; their firstborn died in their arms on his second Christmas Eve. My parents did good things. In the town they chose for their lifework there was no education for girls, so their first act was to start a girls’ school. Now coeducational, it has become the most important primary school in the town.