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God Is Not Great:

How Religion Poisons Everything (Google eBook)
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Hachette Digital, Inc., May 1, 2007 - Religion
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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There was no anger or malice in his writing. - Goodreads
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User Review  - Ray Mabry - Goodreads

To be completely honest from the start, I didn't finish the book. I took on this book about a year ago. Being agnostic, I thought that this book would be impossible to peel away from, but after ... Read full review

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User Review  - Abu Mahmoud - Goodreads

I really enjoyed this book. He is an equal opportunity critic, attacking the pretensions not only of the Western religions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, but Buddhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism ... Read full review

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Contents

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Religion Kills
A Short Digression on the Pig or Why Heaven Hates
The Metaphysical Claims of Religion Are False
Arguments from Design
Revelation The Nightmare of the Old Testament
The New Testament Exceeds the Evil of the Old
The Koran Is Borrowed from Both Jewish and Christian Myths
The Tawdriness of the Miraculous and the Decline of Hell
The Lowly Stamp of Their Origin Religions Corrupt
Secularism
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About the author (2007)

Christopher Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England on April 13, 1949. He was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and wrote for numerous other publications throughout his lifetime. He was the author of numerous books including No One Left to Lie To, For the Sake of Argument, Prepared for the Worst, God Is Not Great, Hitch-22: A Memoir, and Arguably. He died due to complication from esophageal cancer on December 15, 2011 at the age of 62.

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