Yahweh Belongs on the Scrapheap of Mythology

The Sam Harris website has an excellent letter he wrote to Dennis Prager as part of a continued dialogue. It's an excellent read and can be found here.
An excerpt:

The United States now stands alone in the developed world as a country that conducts its national discourse under the shadow of religious literalism. Eighty-three percent of the U.S. population believes that Jesus literally rose from the dead; 53% believe that the universe is 6,000 years old. This is embarrassing. Add to this comedy of false certainties the fact that 44% of Americans are confident that Jesus will return to Earth sometime in the next 50 years and you will glimpse the terrible liability of this sort of thinking.