God Is Not Great - Moé for Solarpunk Books

307 pages

English language

Published Aug. 23, 2007 by Twelve.

ISBN:: 978-0-446-57980-3
OCLC Number:: 70630426

God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made, dangerously sexually repressive, and distorts the very origins of the cosmos. Above all, Hitchens argues that the concept of an omniscient God has profoundly damaged humanity, and proposes that the world might be a great deal better off without "him."

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nerd teacher [books] reviewed God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens

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

1 star

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.

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.