God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

of Christopher Hitchens

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>With his unique brand of erudition and wit, Hitchens describes the ways in which religion is man-made. "God did not make us," he says. "We made God." He explains the ways in which religion is immoral: We damage our children by indoctrinating them. It is a cause of sexual repression, violence, and ignorance. It is a distortion of our origins and the cosmos. In the place of religion, Hitchens offers the promise of a new enlightenment through science and reason, a realm in which hope and wonder can be found through a strand of DNA or a gaze through the Hubble Telescope. As Hitchens sees it, you needn't get the blues once you discover the heavens are empty.

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Nonfiction Nonfiction Religion Philosophy Atheism Science History Politics Audiobook Theology Sociology

Main Characters

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 Albert Einstein God Thomas Jefferson

Book Details

Format Hardcover
Pages 307 pages
Publisher Twelve
Publication Date 2007
First Publication Not informed
Language English
ISBN 9780446579803
Edition Not informed
Category Non-Fiction
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