Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
Like his previous book Sapiens, this book is also very intellectual and interesting. The author is constantly challenging to humanism, the most prevalent and strong religion in modern society, with historical and scientific knowledge. In the book, the author said that religion is interested in order, whereas science is interested in power – this viewpoint is quite different from the common belief that religion or science seeks truth or freedom. The definition of religion is also different from traditional or popular belief. The religion defined in this book encompasses ideologies such as communism and humanism. Anything can be a religion if it holds ethical values, as a value cannot be verified by factual evidence or experiment. Value is just believed and accepted by human beings, so it can be considered as a part of religion. In this regard, humans are inherently religious and everyone has one’s religion. Like in the Sapiens , the author stressed the importance and power of storytel...