God Is Not Great
How Religion Poisons Everything
By Christopher Hitchens
(Twelve, Paperback, 9780446697965, 336pp.)
Publication Date: April 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Large Print (April 2009), Compact Disc (April 2009), Hardcover (May 2007), Compact Disc (May 2007)
Categories: Atheism, Sociology of Religion
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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.
Chistopher Hitchens is a widely published polemicist and frequent radio and TV commentator. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School in New York.
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