God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything in Atheists and Skeptics

Mar 04, 2008 William rated it really liked it

What a book. Its so hard to review a book who's author is both an enormous intellectual and an equally enormous ahole. I certainly would recommend it to every believer and think it will shake their foundations. But like every fanatic and believe me Hitchens is as fanatical in his atheism as any fundamentalist preacher, he overreaches. He spends chapters propositioning that communism is a new religion yet says nothing about the dominate economic worldwide system of capitalism?? He talks only brie ...more

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Sep 17, 2009 Laurie rated it really liked it

Shelves: religion-philosophy

I don't agree with Hitchens on everything, but I am still a fan and I'm very glad he wrote this book. Particularly here in America, religious superstition and its unexamined "moral" precepts threaten to weaken us as a society and send us back to the Middle Ages. Hitchens takes apart these precepts one by one and exposes organized religion for what it is: a man-made instrument of social control.

That said, I do think that Hitchens misses some crucial aspects of spirituality, particularly with res ...more

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Mar 04, 2008 Mark Gowan rated it really liked it

Shelves: atheism, the-detriment-of-religion

After Harris' book, The End of Faith, smacked down on the scene, books such as this started popping up (The God Delusion, Breaking the Spell etc...) "God is [indeed] Not Great", but Hitchen's book is. It is iconoclastic, witty, and a lot of fun.
Hitchin's point is two-fold: religious belief (in all its forms) is dangerous and stupid. Just a little tidbit will give the basic style of the book:
"Why do people keep saying, "God is in the details"? He isn't in ours, unless his yokel creationist fans w ...more

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Mar 13, 2008 Michael rated it it was amazing

Shelves: non-fiction

Religion is man made! This book is an eye opener on all religions. It shows the myths, lies, deception and power brokers at play. It shows the racism, sexism and corruption of all major religions. The superstions involved are rampant. The concept of hell is explored. He concludes with the need for a new enlightment. I couldn't agree more! ...more

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Oct 29, 2008 Kilt rated it it was amazing

Shelves: atheism

I was afraid this would just be a screed, but it is brilliant. Thoughtful, forceful and thoroughly entertaining! I swear, the man is more eloquent and incisive drunk than I am sober...

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