God is not great : how religion poisons everything /: how religion poisons everything. (2008 ©2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christopher Hitchens.
• Other Names: Hitchens, Christopher
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Atlantic Books
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (397 pages)
• Subjects: 322.1; RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist); Rationalism; Religion -- Controversial literature; Rationalism; Religion; RELIGION / Biblical Commentary / General; RELIGION / Philosophy; RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General; RELIGION / Scientology; RELIGION / Islam / General; RELIGION / Sikhism; RELIGION / Atheism; RELIGION / Judaism / General; RELIGION / Hinduism / General; RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics; RELIGION / Theology; RELIGION / History; Electronic books; Controversial literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857897152; 0857897152
• Related ISBNs: 0446697966; 9780446697965
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-341) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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