God is not great : how religion poisons everything / Christopher Hitchens.
2007
200 H674g 2007
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Title
God is not great : how religion poisons everything / Christopher Hitchens.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780446579803
0446579807
0446579807
Imprint
New York : Twelve, 2007.
Language
English
Description
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
200 H674g 2007
System Control No.
(OCoLC)70630426
(OCoLC)70630426
(OCoLC)70630426
Summary
"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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