God Is Not Great
how religion poisons everything
$45.27
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2009
Summary
God Is Not Great: A Case Against Religion
In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’s 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780446697965 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0446697966 |
| Author: | Christopher Hitchens |
| Publisher: | Twelve |
| Imprint: | Twelve |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2009 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 28mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
”[An] impressive and enjoyable attack on everything so many people hold dear… Hitchens has outfoxed the Hitchens watchers by writing a serious and deeply felt book, totally consistent with his beliefs of a lifetime. And God should be flattered: unlike most of those clamoring for his attention, Hitchens treats him like an adult.“–New York Times”[Hitchens] has somehow turned out an atheist book that, whatever one’s stance on divine providence, is thoroughly enjoyable…in its profane interrogation of the sacred, [it] achieves a kind of joyous impudence…His narrative leans briskly and unrelentingly forward, subverting an unsettling all kinds of complacencies, religious and otherwise.“–Wall Street Journal
About The Author
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens is the author of “God Is Not Great”, “Hitch-22”, and “Why Orwell Matters”.
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