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God Is Not Great

 Christopher Hitchens

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Shortlisted for United States National Book Awards: Nonfiction 2007.
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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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esigs rated this book  
 

Fantastic book. I only gave it 3 stars though because it is hard to read... As with anything that Hitchens writes...

9 months ago...

Jasper Pinkerton rated this book  
 

I read this book immediately after THE GOD DELUSION (I think they were even published contemporaneously but I may be mistaken) and for that reason I can't help making a comparison. It is a very good read but it should be noted that the writing style is more aggressive than Dawkins's. But it is just as revealing and as refreshing; whereas Dawkins critiques religious belief from a scientific perspective, Hitchens comes more from the moral, cultural and sociological angles. For anyone who has read and enjoyed THE GOD DELUSION, I would recommend this one too.

1 year ago...


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