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.
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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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Obviously, anyone who can write a less-than-flattering book about Mother Teresa is not concerned with offending anyone. More or less, here's the rub: "God" explained a lot, back before we had Science and The Enlightenment, and now, humanity suffers at the hand of religious zealots whose battles spill over into the lives of the innocent. And one point that I'm sure would make my mother cry: it is possible to live a moral and good life without "God." Given the right subject, he's actually prettyLet 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
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.
Witty, fact-based, amusing rant. I laughed out loud many times!I think part of the rage Hitchens encounters derives from the fact that he is funny. If he put on a scholarly, serious tone, and imitated the behaviour of priests in the way he poses his arguments, he would not be hated in the way he is. But the ridicule makes him a target. I happen to like entertaining arguments more than tedious, nonsensical discussions on evidence for made-up assertions, and cheer Hitchens on when he offers his
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.
When my friends or the new people I'm acquainted with find out that I am an atheist ,they tend to raise their eyebrows or purse their lips. It is unusual for someone like me in the Philippines to not believe in God/god. The same as what happened a long time ago, when my best friend based in Thailand confirmed that I belong now to the members of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism", she was worried that I would no longer be saved in the event that the Judgment Day came. She insisted that I
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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