000			01450nam a2200157Ia 4500
020			_a978-0446579803
100			_aHitchens, Christopher
245			_aGod is not great : how religion poisons everything
260			_c2007 _bTwelve _aNEw York
300			_a307 p. _b23 cm; Hardbound
500			_a$24.99
505			_aPutting 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.
520			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher
650			_aReligion _aReligion and civilization _aReligion and social problems
942			_cBK
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