Christopher Hitchens
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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.Be Specific About Books Conducive To God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
| 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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Ratings: 3.97 From 83840 Users | 4538 ReviewsAssessment Of Books God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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 ofMy newly teenage son was off for a weekend of acting workshops, and he found himself in a religious discussion with his mostly pious friends. He didn't give it much thought, and simply stated that he was atheist. More than a few of his religious friends didn't speak to him for the rest of the weekend, and now he awaits his return to acting class this week to see if they will still see him as a friend or will have cast him aside. He's been angry with himself ever since for telling the truth. He
In his later years, Christopher Hitchens developed a habit of loudly declaiming about subjects that he had little specific knowledge about. Departing from his career as a journalist, during the mid-2000s Hitchens began an entirely new adventure as an amateur philosopher of sorts. The New Atheism movement of which he was one of the major figures made very bold pronouncements, announcing what seemed like nothing less than an imminent revolution in human values. The decrepit old garments of thought
This book is fundamentally flawed in argument, but can be enjoyable to read. Christopher Hitchens, however, is an exceptionally witty writer, who often finds clever ways to express himself. His writing is conversational, flowing, but sometimes elitist, arrogant, and pretentious. His humor is evident throughout the book, but it is consistently divisive and adversarial.As an atheist, I find the writing enjoyable, intelligent, and humorous. I do not need to be further convinced of the dangers of
Not long ago, I watched a couple of those "How The Universe Works" shows, and it kinda traumatized me. In however many billions of years, the sun is going to die, and slightly before that the Earth will be incinerated, and everything that we are, were, will be, and will have built will cease to exist. I can comprehend that. Earth's only one part of a solar system in a tiny part of one galaxy of hundreds of billions of galaxies that exist in the vastness of the universe. See? I know that someday
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
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
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