God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
| Author: | Christopher Hitchens |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Publish Date: | May 1, 2007 |
| ISBN-10: | 0446579807 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780446579803 |
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Title: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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Essayist and contrarian Christopher Hitchens takes on all the world's major and minor religions (and, perhaps, God himself) in this well-argued, though controversial, summa theologica. Hitchens considers religion to be a primitive response to the world, cites the harm done through history in the name of religion, and argues in favor of science and reason. He is less than hagiographic on Gandhi, Billy Graham, the Dalai Lama, and, of course, Mother Teresa, who got the full Hitchens in his earlier work, THE MISSIONARY POSITION. As always, Hitchens is erudite, acerbic, and eminently readable. And he can quote scripture to illustrate his points!
Publisher Notes
First Line: If the intended reader of this book should want to go beyond disagreement with its author and try to identify the sins and deformities that animated him to write it (and I have certainly noticed that those who publicly affirm charity and compassion and forgiveness are often inclined to take this course), then he or she will not just be quarreling with the unknowable and ineffable creator who--presumably--opted to make me this way. They will be defiling the memory of a good, sincere, simple woman, of stable and decent faith, named Mrs. Jean Watts.
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.
Industry Reviews
"[Christopher Hitchens] has written, with tremendous brio and great wit, but also with an underlying genuine anger, an all-out attack on all aspects of religion....[A] serious and deeply felt book, totally consistent with his beliefs of a lifetime."
(05/13/2007)
"GOD IS NOT GREAT is a coolly angry book, but there are good laughs too....[W]hat a splendid, boisterously virile broadside of a book it is."
(09/07/2007)
Click on this books subject categories to see related titles:
Religion > General
Religion > General > Religion
Philosophy > Movements / rationalism > Rationalism
Other Available Formats:
Paperback, 2009
Paperback, 2009
Compact Disc, 2009
Compact Disc, 2007
Book Details Summary: The title of this book is God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything and it was written by Christopher Hitchens. This edition of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is May 1, 2007. It was published by Twelve and has 307 pages in the book. The 10 digit ISBN is 0446579807 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780446579803. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.
Essayist and contrarian Christopher Hitchens takes on all the world's major and minor religions (and, perhaps, God himself) in this well-argued, though controversial, summa theologica. Hitchens considers religion to be a primitive response to the world, cites the harm done through history in the name of religion, and argues in favor of science and reason. He is less than hagiographic on Gandhi, Billy Graham, the Dalai Lama, and, of course, Mother Teresa, who got the full Hitchens in his earlier work, THE MISSIONARY POSITION. As always, Hitchens is erudite, acerbic, and eminently readable. And he can quote scripture to illustrate his points!
Publisher Notes
First Line: If the intended reader of this book should want to go beyond disagreement with its author and try to identify the sins and deformities that animated him to write it (and I have certainly noticed that those who publicly affirm charity and compassion and forgiveness are often inclined to take this course), then he or she will not just be quarreling with the unknowable and ineffable creator who--presumably--opted to make me this way. They will be defiling the memory of a good, sincere, simple woman, of stable and decent faith, named Mrs. Jean Watts.
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.
Industry Reviews
"[Christopher Hitchens] has written, with tremendous brio and great wit, but also with an underlying genuine anger, an all-out attack on all aspects of religion....[A] serious and deeply felt book, totally consistent with his beliefs of a lifetime."
(05/13/2007)
"GOD IS NOT GREAT is a coolly angry book, but there are good laughs too....[W]hat a splendid, boisterously virile broadside of a book it is."
(09/07/2007)
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Click on this books subject categories to see related titles:
Religion > General
Religion > General > Religion
Philosophy > Movements / rationalism > Rationalism
Other Available Formats:
Paperback, 2009
Paperback, 2009
Compact Disc, 2009
Compact Disc, 2007
Book Details Summary: The title of this book is God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything and it was written by Christopher Hitchens. This edition of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is May 1, 2007. It was published by Twelve and has 307 pages in the book. The 10 digit ISBN is 0446579807 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780446579803. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.
