God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

by Christopher Hitchens

Paperback, 2009

Status

Available

Publication

Twelve (2009), 336 pages

Description

"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.

Language

ISBN

0446697966 / 9780446697965

Library's review

Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.

In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am
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Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos.
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Rating

½ (1864 ratings; 3.9)

Pages

336
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