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God Is Not Great
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God Is Not Great (2007) (edit title/settings)

How Religion Poisons Everything

by Christopher Hitchens (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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  • - The worship of supernatural beings leads to fundamentally bad consequences for everyone. So stop it!!!
  • - Religion is man made for the purpose of controlling other men through subversion.

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  • “All religions take care to silence or to execute those who question them”
  • “Human beings and institutions are imperfect, to be sure”
  • “Religion poisons everything”

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  • Iglesia Católica: Es la iglesia cristiana más grande del mundo. Se le conoce como Iglesia católica apostólica romana o como Iglesia católica romana. Católica es término originario del idioma griego que significa universal.
  • La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días: Conocida popularmente como iglesia mormona, es una congregación religiosa cristiana fundada por José Smith en el estado estadounidense de Nueva York en el año 1830. Sus fieles afirman seguir las enseñanzas de Jesucristo, pero no se consideran parte de las tres vertientes tradicionales del cristianismo (catolicismo, Iglesias ortodoxas ni protestantismo), sino más bien una restauración del cristianismo primitivo, ya que en opinión de sus adherentes éste apostató tras la muerte de San Pedro y los otros apóstoles.
  • Islam: Es una religión monoteísta abrahámica cuyo dogma se basa en el libro del Corán, el cual establece como premisa fundamental para sus creyentes que «No hay más Dios que Alá y que Mahoma es el mensajero de Alá». La palabra árabe Allah, castellanizada como Alá, significa ‘Dios’ y su etimología es la misma de la palabra semítica "El", con la que se nombra a Dios en la Biblia.

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If the intended reader of this book should want to go beyond disagreement with its author and try to identify the sins and deformities that animated him to write it (and I have certainly noticed that those who publicly affirm charity and compassion and forgiveness are often inclined to take this course), then he or she will not just be quarreling with the unknowable and ineffable creator who--presumably--opted to make me this way.

Table of Contents edit see section history

1. Putting It Mildly
2. Religion Kills
3. A Short Digression on the Pig; or Why Heaven Hates Ham
4. A Note on Health, to Which Religion Can Be Hazardous
5. The Metaphysical Claims of Religion Are False
6. Arguments from Design
7. Revelation: The Nightmare of the "Old" Testament
8. The "New" Tetament Exceeds the Evil of the "Old" One
9. The Koran is Borrowed from both Jewish and Christian Myths
10. The Tawdriness of the Miraculous and the Decline of Hell
11. "The Lovely Stamp of their Origin":Religion's Corrupt Beginnings
12. A Coda: How Religions End
13. Does Religion Make People Behave Better?
14. There is no "Eastern" Solution
15. Religion as an Original Sin
16. Is Religion Child Abuse?
17. An Objection Anticipated: The Last-Ditch "Case" Against Secularism
18. A Finer Tradition: The Resistance of the Rational
19. In Conclusion: The Need For a New Enlightenment

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Christopher Hitchens (Author)

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  1. Ricardo García Pérez (Translator) - Traducción al Español

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Twelve
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 0446579807
Page Count: 307

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: BL2775.3 .H58 2007
  • Dewey: 200 22

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

It's pretty heavy reading at times, but a young adult interested in the topic should be able to read it without too much of an issue.

More Books Like This edit see section history

   
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  • The End of Faith
  • The Portable Atheist
  • Hitch-22
  • The Greatest Show on Earth
  • Did Man Create God? Is Your Spiritual Brain at Peace with Your Thinking Brain?

Books Cited by This Book edit see section history

   
  • The Bible (New International Version)
  • The Talmud
  • The Koran

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