false 57334955 572760 43369 0446579807 9780446579803 1045 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255879534m/43369.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255879534s/43369.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43369.God_Is_Not_Great_How_Religion_Poisons_Everything 3.75 4553 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 8386 1600 2007 4 0 false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 22:45:02 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 06:57:16 -0700 2009