God Is Not Great

How Religion Poisons Everything

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Paperback, 320 pages

English language

Published Sept. 2, 2008 by McClelland & Stewart.

ISBN:
978-0-7710-4143-3
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OCLC Number:
198525479

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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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reviewed God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens

One of the More Readable Horsemen, but That's a Low Bar

Reading these books does one thing for me: It helps me better understand why so many of the 'educated' atheists that were drawn to the New Atheist movement failed to engage with the actual reality of the world around them... and it's because these "horsemen" failed to do so. They fail to engage with history that denies them their point, and they fail to engage with societal and political issues that add nuance to things they discuss.

And while Hitchens did better at it that his compatriots, he still does it quite a lot and to a distracting point.

Subjects

  • Atheism
  • Sociology of Religion
  • Social Science / General
  • Religion - World Religions