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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
 

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

by Christopher Hitchens

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.... (read more)

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“God damn! The most emotionally satisfying of the recent atheistic wave. Nobody blows away smoke screens like Christopher Hitchens. This book may confirm your instincts, make you seethe with hatred or even liberate you, but it will not bore you. Which side are you on?”

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  • james s

    james s said:

    “If you're a "God Person," then you will have a negative take on this book, finding flaws real and imaginary. If you're not a GP then you seem to have mixed reviews on Hitchens's book. I gleaned this info from cruising down the list of comments which will fall beneath this one. Personally I don't think much of Hitchens for reasons other than this book. However, it is difficult to deny his premise that serious damage has been done to civilizations and individuals in the name of religion and whose god is better, bigger, faster, stronger, ad nauseaum, thoa who else's god. Remenber NApoleon once said that God is on the side of the army with the biggest cannon.”

    posted Sunday, January 20 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • Cosmo

    cosmo said:

    “As one of the reviews stated, he is "Probably preaching to the choir for many readers". For the majority of the "religious", they have been taught to avoid reading or listening to anything that might contradict what they have been taught; this is the devil trying to poison their mind.”

    posted Monday, November 12 2007 ( | view 1 reply )
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