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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.
- Sales Rank: #4809 in Books
- Brand: Twelve Publishing
- Published on: 2009-04-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 5.20" h x .88" w x 8.00" l, .60 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
Features
From Publishers Weekly
Hitchens, one of our great political pugilists, delivers the best of the recent rash of atheist manifestos. The same contrarian spirit that makes him delightful reading as a political commentator, even (or especially) when he's completely wrong, makes him an entertaining huckster prosecutor once he has God placed in the dock. And can he turn a phrase!: "monotheistic religion is a plagiarism of a plagiarism of a hearsay of a hearsay, of an illusion of an illusion, extending all the way back to a fabrication of a few nonevents." Hitchens's one-liners bear the marks of considerable sparring practice with believers. Yet few believers will recognize themselves as Hitchens associates all of them for all time with the worst of history's theocratic and inquisitional moments. All the same, this is salutary reading as a means of culling believers' weaker arguments: that faith offers comfort (false comfort is none at all), or has provided a historical hedge against fascism (it mostly hasn't), or that "Eastern" religions are better (nope). The book's real strength is Hitchens's on-the-ground glimpses of religion's worst face in various war zones and isolated despotic regimes. But its weakness is its almost fanatical insistence that religion poisons "everything," which tips over into barely disguised misanthropy. (May 30)
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From Booklist
*Starred Review* God is getting bad press lately. Sam Harris' The End of Faith(2005) and Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion (2006) have questioned the existence of any spiritual being and met with enormous success. Now, noted, often acerbic journalist Hitchens enters the fray. As his subtitle indicates, his premise is simple. Not only does religion poison everything, which he argues by explaining several ways in which religion is immoral, but the world would be better off without religion. Replace religious faith with inquiry, open-mindedness, and the pursuit of ideas, he exhorts. Closely reading major religious texts, Hitchens points to numerous examples of atrocities and mayhem in them. Religious faith, he asserts, is both result and cause of dangerous sexual repression. What's more, it is grounded in nothing more than wish fulfillment. Hence, he believes that religion is man-made, and an ethical life can be lived without its stamp of approval. With such chapter titles as "Religion Kills" and "Is Religion Child Abuse?" Hitchens intends to provoke, but he is not mean-spirited and humorless. Indeed, he is effortlessly witty and entertaining as well as utterly rational. Believers will be disturbed and may even charge him with blasphemy (he questions not only the virgin birth but the very existence of Jesus), and he may not change many minds, but he offers the open-minded plenty to think about. June Sawyers
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"If God intended reasonable men and women to worship Him without embarrassment, why did He create Christopher Hitchens? It was a fatal miscalculation. In God Is Not Great, Hitchens not only demonstrates that religion is man-made -- and made badly -- he laughs the whole monstrosity to rubble. This is a profoundly clever book, addressing the most pressing social issue of our time, by one of the finest writers in the land."
"--"Sam Harris, Author of the New York Times bestsellers The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation
"Noted, often acerbic journalist Hitchens enters the fray. As his subtitle indicates, his premise is simple. Not only does religion poison everything, which he argues by explaining several ways in which religion is immoral, but the world would be better off without religion. ... With such chapter titles as "Religion Kills" and "Is Religion Child Abuse?" Hitchens intends to provoke, but he is not mean-spirited and humorless. Indeed, he is effortlessly witty and entertaining as well as utterly rational." "
-- Booklist "** starred review**
"Do yourself a favor and skip the Dawkins and Harris; they're smug, turgid, and boring, with all the human feeling of a tax return. Read Hitchens instead. Test your faith severely or find a champion for your feelings, but read Hitchens. It's a tendentious delight, a caustic and even brilliant book. And with the title alone, he takes his life in his hands, which right there has got to be some proof of his thesis. And so, thank God for Christopher Hitchens."
--"Esquire"
"Hitchens, one of our great political pugilists, delivers the best of the recent rash of atheist manifestos. The same contrarian spirit thatmakes him delightful reading as a political commentator, even (or especially) when he's completely wrong, makes him an entertaining huckster prosecutor once he has God placed in the dock. Hitchens's one-liners bear the marks of considerable sparring practice with believers.... this is salutary reading as a means of culling believers' weaker arguments."
--"Publishers Weekly
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Praise for Christopher Hitchens:
"America's foremost literary pugilist."
--"The Village Voice"
"From the Hardcover edition."
Most helpful customer reviews
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
It is a shocking book-- like learning that your pappa was Santa Claus
By Stuart Denenberg
As important to human consciousness as Copernicus-- and far more critical to furthering world peace than Moses, Jesus, or Muhammad. I have dared the "faith-full" to read it through. They skim, they reguse, abd they distort and misremember. It is a shocking book-- like learning that your pappa was Santa Claus, but a thousand tomesmore difficult to accept. Truly a watershed in our evolution of thoughtfulness and an accurate awareness of the Mystery and the Truth!!!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Free thinking, science, art, literature and critical systematic study on all subjects are Great
By Gi
It's never enough to tell over and over again how much one needs to go through the free thinking tradition that questions the power and authority of religion in the world. It's again so urgent to engage in the atheist's reasoning. To stop beeing afraid because the history of the exercise of religion, namely the western monotheist religions, has been one of fear and punishment and obscurantism and superstition and torture and war and ignorance.
It's all been said about the eloquence and wit and knowledge and courage of Hitchens. Subscribe to it all.
We need brave men and women to come forth and break the fear of offending this dark ages' proponents of an evil, dogmatic, violent and absolutist global society where science and art and literature and free thinking and debating and scrutiny and study and curiosity and fun and openness and tolerance have no place.
It's urgent to keep the fight against the final fight, the final war, the final word, the final truth, intending to put an end to the only way humans are supposed to live: the tentative and unfinished and interrogative and curious and sternly studious life. Striving enlightenment and beauty and knowledge and awe is our path in the world and this path can only be walked on by repudiating absolutist violent claims based on absolutist violent books that belong in History and in the past.
Mandatory reading!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
'Holy' Hitchens!
By PS
This is a masterpiece. Along with "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins and "The End of Faith" by Sam Harris, this excellent work by the late Christopher Hitchens is one leg of the 'milking stool' of my atheism. It is provocative, insightful, and beautifully written in fluid and articulate prose. Even if you're a believer, I encourage you to read this book. It's not purely a polemic against religion; rather, it raises questions that every theist should consider and be able to answer.
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