God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything | Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything | Christopher Hitchens | Great research book

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	God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Christopher Hitchens Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group, 2007 - 307 pages average customer review:based on 777 reviews view larger image
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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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A must read

The bold title is argued well by Hitchens. It's a must read for people interested in faith and ethics. If you are looking for a book written by an author who shows no remorse in his aim to hold religion in contempt, this is for you.

Great research book

This author has done extensive research to support his belief or lack thereof. I found it very interesting and informative and in tune with my beliefs.
Diana Amaniera

The book's intended audience will be pleased.

If you are an atheist or agnostic (an actual agnostic, not "oh i cant decide tee hee"), I highly recommend this book. Hitchens does an excellent job at illustrating how religion poisons everything. One of the best things about the book is that he presents his view from a refreshing perspective. It's nice to see a modern atheist work that doesn't assault the reader with a copious amount of evolutionary science. Although evolutionary studies do interest me, I think books like this are important because they help shatter the misconception that atheism is just a religion of science.

If you are religious, reading this book or saying that you read this book and writing a review about how Hitchens is wrong would be a complete waste of time. The chances of how you think being changed by any atheist argument, no matter how logical or reasonable, are very small. It is too late. Enjoy your religion and leave everyone else alone. Furthermore, most of us do not care what you think about this book. This book is not about converting you to atheism, its purpose is to illustrate the negative effects of religion on humanity.

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Talk Radio for Atheists

Unlike Dawkins' The God Delusion or Dennett's Breaking the Spell, Hitchens makes no effort to be conciliatory towards religionists. Even though, he has many good points, I doubt that many religionists could get past the strident tone. Hitchens pulls no punches in attacking the New and Old Testaments, the Koran, and eastern religions.

For atheists this book is a fun read, although I would still recommend Dawkins or Dennett for more careful arguments. I especially like the insights in Chapter 17: The Last-Ditch "Case" Against Secularism, where Hitchens confronts the Hitler/Stalin/etc. fallacy.

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A very fun read

No matter what else you can say about this book, it was fun to read.

Hitches is an excellent writer, regularly quoting literature and poetry as well as scientific documentation and personal experience all blended into an extremely readable book which is scathing towards religion.

Some of the statements are so bold that I laughed out loud. He was insulting, but often to exactly the right people in exactly the way that they deserved.

That being said, as fun as it was, I don't find that Hitchens really attacks religion so much as specific people at specific places and times. We all know that religions in charge of countries and large populations don't often offer joy, harmony and happiness, but rather oppression, poverty and preach being happy with what you have while the leaders bask in luxury.

He did address much more modern points than many current writers, so the catholic church in many places even today continue to oppress poor people who they hold sway over.

This, of course, says nothing about God or the goodness or badness of religion in general and is unlikely to convince anyone but a fence sitter. Still, my hat is off to Hitchens for writing a damn good read.

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