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

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Book name: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2024)
Category: Nonfiction
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Pages: 307 pages
ISBN13: 0446579807
ISBN: 0446579807
Language: English
Publication data: Jan. 1, 2007, 8 a.m.
God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made, dangerously sexually repressive, and distorts the very origins of the cosmos. Above all, Hitchens argues that the concept of an omniscient God has profoundly damaged humanity, and proposes that the world might be a great deal better off without "him."

About the author

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens

5 books

Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English-born American author, journalist, and literary critic. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens was also a political observer, whose best-selling books — the most famous being God Is Not Great — made him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was also a media fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Hitchens was a polemicist and intellectual. While he… Read more