God is not great : how religion poisons everything

Hitchens, Christopher

God is not great : how religion poisons everything - NEw York Twelve 2007 - 307 p. 23 cm; Hardbound

$24.99

Putting it mildly --
Religion kills --
A short digression on the pig, or, Why Heaven hates ham --
A note on health, to which religion can be hazardous --
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 one --
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" : religion's corrupt beginnings --
A coda : how religions end --
Does religion make people behave better? --
There is no "Eastern" solution --
Religion as an original sin --
Is religion child abuse? --
An objection anticipated : the last-ditch "case" against secularism --
A finer tradition : the resistance of the rational --
In conclusion : the need for a new Enlightenment.

Includes bibliographical references and index
A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher

978-0446579803


Religion
Religion and civilization
Religion and social problems

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