God Is Not Great

How Religion Poisons Everything

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • atheïsme
  • bible
  • controversial literature
  • god
  • godsdienst
  • new york times bestseller
  • nonfiction
  • nyt:paperback_nonfiction=2011-11-05
  • open library staff picks
  • ouvrages de controverse
  • rationalism
  • rationalisme
  • religion
  • religion and civilization
  • religion and ethics
  • religion and politics
  • religion and social problems
  • religion and sociology
  • religion and state
  • religions
  • religion & spirituality