false 8561186 269027 43369 0446579807 9780446579803 1043 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255879534m/43369.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43369.God_Is_Not_Great_How_Religion_Poisons_Everything 3.75 4543 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 8368 1597 4 0 false Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 02 08:00:53 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 04 16:42:53 -0800 2008
Some of the religious folks who have read and reviewed this book in a "know your enemy" kind of way have said that Hitchens doesn't make any convincing argument for god's nonexistence, but they miss the point. Hitchens' argument is not that god doesn't exist, he's arguing that religion is destructive whether god exists or not, and he makes a very compelling argument for that.
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