Full name: God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Author: Christopher Hitchens Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Religion, Atheism, Science, Politics, History, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780446579803 9780446697965 0446579807 0446697966

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. Similar books: Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God by Guy P. Harrison The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins The End of Faith by Sam Harris Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton The Missionary Position by Christopher Hitchens The God Virus by Darrel W. Ray Irreligion by John Allen Paulos The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens The New Atheism by Victor J. Stenger Atheism Explained by David Ramsay Steele Atheist Universe by David Mills Arguably by Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist by Victor J. Stenger The reason-driven life by Robert M. Price The Atheist's Bible by Joan Konner The Christian Delusion by John W. Loftus Blood, Class and Empire by Christopher Hitchens Mortality by Christopher Hitchens