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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Christopher Hitchens

Hardcover | Pages: 307 pages

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Title	:	God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Author	:	Christopher Hitchens
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 307 pages
Published	:	2007 by Twelve
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Religion. Philosophy. Atheism. Science. Politics. History

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In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am 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.

With eloquent clarity, 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.

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Original Title:	God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
ISBN:	0446579807 (ISBN13: 9780446579803)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, God, Moses (Bible), Joseph Stalin, Osama Bin Laden, Voltaire, Joseph Smith, Mother Teresa, Steven Seagal, Jerry Falwell, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Mary, mother of Jesus (Bible), Baruch Spinoza, E.P. Thompson, Malcolm Muggeridge, Muhammad, Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel Dennett, Jawaharlal Nehru, Karen Armstrong, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Walter Kirn, Allah, John Frum, Dalai Lama XIV, Richard Gere, Dennis Prager, Omar Khayyám, Henry VIII of England, Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (2007)

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This book received two stars because of the writing. Hitchens writes well. I could have given it five stars for the value it holds for the Christian community - it serves as easy target practice. It is too bad that I only have 4000 characters at my disposal. Otherwise, I would love to go through this book in painstaking detail, pointing out the flabby and flaccid naked emperor while we all point and laugh at how confident the ignorant, intellectually naked emperor struts up and down the street.

Let me begin this review by telling you that I'm an atheist. In fact, I'm with Douglas Adams in calling myself a "radical atheist", just to make sure that everyone gets the point. Yes, really. It's in my profile.So my opinion about this book really has nothing to do with my personal convictions. Well, not my personal religious convictions, of which there are none. It has everything to do with my personal convictions as an atheist. And as an atheist, I'm offended by this book.Hitchens is not, and

Up til a few hundred years ago, religion used to be our way of understanding all the shit we didn't have answers for - which was a lot... stars, rainbows, the causal relationship between fucking and dropping babies*(FN) - and a way to feel like we had emergency options when we were completely helpless: times of plague, famine and warfare. There were gods we could try to please or mollify by killing things, and then harass for military, climatic and antiviral favors. It usually didn't amount to

A wicked, witty condemnation of all things religious. As a person of faith, I find that Hitchens often sounds like a blind man ridiculing the value of Rembrandt and Van Gogh. But he is particularly fine on the noxious ways in which religion intersects with the most murderous forms of politics. And of course--as is always the case with Hitchens--the book is witty and well written.As a reader of the Nation for over a quarter of a century, I enjoyed Christopher Hitchens political analysis and

Having read the book some time before the author died and having written a review but not on this site I'm at a loss to comprehend now what went wrong with this book. I had a more lenient rating system at the time I read this book. Now I'd have given this book a 2/5 - which I just have. There is too much focus on current terrorist acts and while in theory it's not a bad idea, I did found such parts muddling and boring. Respect to Hitchens though and RIP.

Imagine if a basketball fan set out to discredit baseball and converts its adherents to his chosen sport. He would note the rather dubious creation myth still celebrated in the sports' Hall of Fame, the Black Sox scandal, the exclusion of African American players until the 1950s, frequent brawls between teams that literally clear the benches, and two most successful players of the last decade being almost undoubted cheats. He could go on to argue that the uniforms are childish, the habits of

Description: In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's 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. Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the