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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)

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Christopher Hitchens

Hardcover | Pages: 307 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 83840 Users | 4538 Reviews

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Title	:	God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Author	:	Christopher Hitchens
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First 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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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.

Since I can't say anything with out being labelled as a 'heretic' or a 'heathen', I will just say this;Not everything, but it does poison a lot of things. And its first victims are Reason and Common sense.

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

Up til a few hundred years ago, religion used to be our way of understanding all the shit we didn't have answers for - which was a lot... stars, rainbows, the causal relationship between fucking and dropping babies*(FN) - and a way to feel like we had emergency options when we were completely helpless: times of plague, famine and warfare. There were gods we could try to please or mollify by killing things, and then harass for military, climatic and antiviral favors. It usually didn't amount to

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 pretty

Hallelujah the atheists strike back! This is a personal and direct assault on the whole God concept. Hitchens buys none of it; its just fables and hearsay (upon hearsay) past down from antiquity. Religions cause wars, they indoctrinate the young and they are immoral - the very opposite of what they claim to be.Since the 18th century science has started to trump religion. The microscope, the telescope, discovery of fossils, exploration all have either imploded religion or opened alternative

So. I've read it, front to back. Hitchens laments that the faithful (of whatever persuasion) "have believed what the priests and rabbis and imams tell them about what the unbelievers think" (10), and (it follows) he rages that priests, rabbis and imams would presume to know or communicate what atheists think and why. And yet, what is Hitchens's book if not 300 pages of an unbeliever telling other unbelievers what believers think and why? The hypocrisy here, and elsewhere in the book, is bald as