God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by: Christopher Hitchens
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- Why the negative reviews?
I find it troubling that people who obviously have not read the book are giving this book 1 star because of the title and content of the book.These are the people that atheists like Hitchens, Dawkins, and Harris are referring to when they discuss the closing of the mind due to religious beliefs. This was a phenomenal book with many great arguments that i would love to see theists respond to without simply claiming "Gods will". Great book, great arguments, highly recommended!
Rating: - I loved reading and now listening.
This book was good when I read it...But GREAT listening to. Christopher has a way of reading his book so that it flows like a movie and not some monotonous dibble being narrated by a wanker.
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- Not great
While I qualify as one of those "new" atheists and agree with all Hitchens' conclusions, at times this book had me wavering. While Hitchens lands some square blows on the edifices of religion which are his subject matter, many of his arguments, especially in the first third of the book, even a sympathiser like myself found too easy to knock down. Hitchens appears to be prone to take the weakest of theistic apologetics and the worst examples of religionist behaviour to which to take his axe. This ... Read More
Rating: - Only if you are just starting to question
I really don't know who this is written for.It contains numerous references to others works (Hume, Dostoevsky, Gould) that someone who has done prior reading will have already looked at.Despite a well deserved swipe at Richard Dawkins, Hitchens often takes an equally annoying know-it-all tone.So if you are in a crisis of faith, you don't want to hear another person who claims to have all the answers.The earlier part of the book is better written than the last few chapters, which devolve into ... Read More
Rating: - Brilliant polemic, a true must read
Here Christopher Hitchens uses the full range of his wit and knowledge to thoroughly skewer religion, in all its varied forms.No major religion is spared his treatment.If you consider yourself a free thinker and open to different points of view, you will surely enjoy this book.
Highlights include his revealing portrait of the origins of religious traditions, such as human sacrifice and circumcision, and how they still to this day influence the way people think and societies as a whole ... Read More
- Why the negative reviews?I find it troubling that people who obviously have not read the book are giving this book 1 star because of the title and content of the book.These are the people that atheists like Hitchens, Dawkins, and Harris are referring to when they discuss the closing of the mind due to religious beliefs. This was a phenomenal book with many great arguments that i would love to see theists respond to without simply claiming "Gods will". Great book, great arguments, highly recommended!
- I loved reading and now listening.This book was good when I read it...But GREAT listening to. Christopher has a way of reading his book so that it flows like a movie and not some monotonous dibble being narrated by a wanker.
- Not greatWhile I qualify as one of those "new" atheists and agree with all Hitchens' conclusions, at times this book had me wavering. While Hitchens lands some square blows on the edifices of religion which are his subject matter, many of his arguments, especially in the first third of the book, even a sympathiser like myself found too easy to knock down. Hitchens appears to be prone to take the weakest of theistic apologetics and the worst examples of religionist behaviour to which to take his axe. This ... Read More
- Only if you are just starting to questionI really don't know who this is written for.It contains numerous references to others works (Hume, Dostoevsky, Gould) that someone who has done prior reading will have already looked at.Despite a well deserved swipe at Richard Dawkins, Hitchens often takes an equally annoying know-it-all tone.So if you are in a crisis of faith, you don't want to hear another person who claims to have all the answers.The earlier part of the book is better written than the last few chapters, which devolve into ... Read More
- Brilliant polemic, a true must readHere Christopher Hitchens uses the full range of his wit and knowledge to thoroughly skewer religion, in all its varied forms.No major religion is spared his treatment.If you consider yourself a free thinker and open to different points of view, you will surely enjoy this book.
Highlights include his revealing portrait of the origins of religious traditions, such as human sacrifice and circumcision, and how they still to this day influence the way people think and societies as a whole ... Read More
