God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by: Christopher Hitchens
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In the tradition of 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.
In the tradition of 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.
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- Sort of on the right track, but jibberish: TRASHY THEORY which HURTS the cause. NO FACT, NO PROOF.
Besides the fact that Hitchens's premise equates his BELIEF in a non-existent "God" with religion -- which is far from the truth (G*d is not religious, what a radical idea!) -- his writing is far too pseudo-intellectually written in faux Old English, circa 1700. Very, very difficult to read. You'll have to read every sentence 3 or 4 or 5 times. (And yet, I have a post-graduate degree.) His thoughts are all over the place. He refers to things like "it," or "the book," or "that" and we have no idea ... Read More
Rating: - Oh please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YAWN!!! Same old, same old. This is the best of atheism? This guy would probably (or perhaps definitely) beat me in an argument where you need to think fast. But with a little reflection most of his arguments are like shouting into the wind. Anyone can make an argument by using straw men. Maybe I'm naive, but this man reminds me of the bloke who stuck his chair in the surf and tried to tell the tide not to come in! He may in fact be one of the most religious of us all ... but is he right? (PS. When ... Read More
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- essential DISCLAIMER
Staffers for an organization called Campus Crusade for Christ are responsible for allegations that I (Lucifer) and Christopher Hitchens are in cahoots; and that no one --not even a born-again evangelical Christian -- can read either Hitchens' GOD IS NOT GREAT or Lucifer's TRUE HISTORY OF EVERYTHING without falling into apostasy, atheism, and eternal damnation.
If you should receive that email from Campus Crusade for Christ, please delete it.That's not just Jesus "spam." It is a load ... Read More
Rating: - pipsqueekish.
As a science teacher, I definetely enjoyed Hitchens' debasement of Intelligent Design and agree with him wholeheartedly,but keeping the overaching context of this book in mind, i was left with no choice but to offer one lonely star as a rating. I apologize in advance for the redundancy of my arguments that follow which simply restate the same ideafrom different vantage points. I believemy argument precludes the necessity (at least to my mind) of examining surface minutia, and subsumes them just ... Read More
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- logical, but superficial to some extent
I read "God is not great" relatively quickly, despite many thoughts rushing throung my head while I was reading. I am happy I read this book, which is one of many recently published in the never-ending polemics between believers and atheists. I feel that it is hard to review a book so popular, and I am aware that my review will probably drown in the sea of others, but I could not resist the temptation to share a few thoughts.
Christopher Hitchens tries to take an angle different from Richard ... Read More
- Sort of on the right track, but jibberish: TRASHY THEORY which HURTS the cause. NO FACT, NO PROOF.Besides the fact that Hitchens's premise equates his BELIEF in a non-existent "God" with religion -- which is far from the truth (G*d is not religious, what a radical idea!) -- his writing is far too pseudo-intellectually written in faux Old English, circa 1700. Very, very difficult to read. You'll have to read every sentence 3 or 4 or 5 times. (And yet, I have a post-graduate degree.) His thoughts are all over the place. He refers to things like "it," or "the book," or "that" and we have no idea ... Read More
- Oh please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YAWN!!! Same old, same old. This is the best of atheism? This guy would probably (or perhaps definitely) beat me in an argument where you need to think fast. But with a little reflection most of his arguments are like shouting into the wind. Anyone can make an argument by using straw men. Maybe I'm naive, but this man reminds me of the bloke who stuck his chair in the surf and tried to tell the tide not to come in! He may in fact be one of the most religious of us all ... but is he right? (PS. When ... Read More
- essential DISCLAIMERStaffers for an organization called Campus Crusade for Christ are responsible for allegations that I (Lucifer) and Christopher Hitchens are in cahoots; and that no one --not even a born-again evangelical Christian -- can read either Hitchens' GOD IS NOT GREAT or Lucifer's TRUE HISTORY OF EVERYTHING without falling into apostasy, atheism, and eternal damnation.
If you should receive that email from Campus Crusade for Christ, please delete it.That's not just Jesus "spam." It is a load ... Read More
- pipsqueekish. As a science teacher, I definetely enjoyed Hitchens' debasement of Intelligent Design and agree with him wholeheartedly,but keeping the overaching context of this book in mind, i was left with no choice but to offer one lonely star as a rating. I apologize in advance for the redundancy of my arguments that follow which simply restate the same ideafrom different vantage points. I believemy argument precludes the necessity (at least to my mind) of examining surface minutia, and subsumes them just ... Read More
- logical, but superficial to some extentI read "God is not great" relatively quickly, despite many thoughts rushing throung my head while I was reading. I am happy I read this book, which is one of many recently published in the never-ending polemics between believers and atheists. I feel that it is hard to review a book so popular, and I am aware that my review will probably drown in the sea of others, but I could not resist the temptation to share a few thoughts.
Christopher Hitchens tries to take an angle different from Richard ... Read More
