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God is not great : how religion poisons everything / Christopher Hitchens.
Van Pelt Library BL2775.3 .H58 2007
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LIBRA BL2775.3 .H58 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hitchens, Christopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion--Controversial literature.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- 307 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Twelve, 2007.
- Summary:
- "A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.
- Contents:
- Putting it mildly
- Religion kills
- A short digression on the pig; or, Why Heaven hates ham
- A note on health, to which religion can be hazardous
- The metaphysical claims of religion are false
- Arguments from design
- Revelation: the nightmare of the "Old" Testament
- The "New" Testament exceeds the evil of the "Old" one
- The Koran is borrowed from both Jewish and Christian myths
- The tawdriness of the miraculous and the decline of Hell
- "The lowly stamp of their origin": religion's corrupt beginnings
- A coda: how religions end
- Does religion make people behave better?
- There is no "Eastern" solution
- Religion as an original sin
- Is religion child abuse?
- An objection anticipated: the last-ditch "case" against secularism
- A finer tradition: the resistance of the rational
- In conclusion: the need for a new enlightenment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780446579803
- 0446579807
- OCLC:
- 70630426
- Online:
- Publisher description
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