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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To paraphrase Mr. Spock, "it's only logical."

I read once that there is an innate human need to explain things, to draw clear lines between cause and effect. Humans also tend to put themselves at the center of the universe. Religion, therefore, is what we get.

It's a little frightening to hear what some of this year's Republican presidential candidates have to say about faith. People, people, people...can't we get past some of this?

Subjects

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