false 14005272 820612 43369 0446579807 9780446579803 1046 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/43/369/43369-m-1255879534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/43/369/43369-s-1255879534.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43369.God_Is_Not_Great_How_Religion_Poisons_Everything 3.75 4570 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.]]> 3956 3.80 8424 1600 2007 0 0 false Tue Jan 29 20:02:43 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 20:02:49 -0800 2008