God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens (2007, Hardcover)

Synopsis
"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.

Essayist and contrarian Christopher Hitchens takes on all the world's major and minor religions (and, perhaps, God himself) in this well-argued, though controversial, summa theologica. Hitchens considers religion to be a primitive response to the world, cites the harm done through history in the name of religion, and argues in favor of science and reason. He is less than hagiographic on Gandhi, Billy Graham, the Dalai Lama, and, of course, Mother Teresa, who got the full Hitchens in his earlier work, THE MISSIONARY POSITION. As always, Hitchens is erudite, acerbic, and eminently readable. And he can quote scripture to illustrate his points!

Key Details
Author:	Christopher Hitchens
Language:	English
Publisher:	Twelve
Format:	Hardcover
ISBN-10:	0446579807
ISBN-13:	9780446579803

Additional Details
Edition Number:	1

Size
Length:	307 pages
Thickness:	1 in
Weight:	17.6 oz

Publisher's Note
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.

Poses a case against organized religion that draws on an erudite reading of major religious texts, documenting the myriad ways in which religion reflects human agendas and distorts sexuality and the perception of the origins of the universe, in a science-based analysis that considers the benefits of a secular world.

Industry Reviews
"GOD IS NOT GREAT is a coolly angry book, but there are good laughs too....[W]hat a splendid, boisterously virile broadside of a book it is."
(09/07/2007)

"[Christopher Hitchens] has written, with tremendous brio and great wit, but also with an underlying genuine anger, an all-out attack on all aspects of religion....[A] serious and deeply felt book, totally consistent with his beliefs of a lifetime."
(05/13/2007)