Christopher Hitchens | God is Not Great
How Religion Poisons Everything
Copyright: © Christopher Hitchens 2007
With his unique brand of erudition and wit, Hitchens describes the ways in which religion is man-made. "God did not make us," he says. "We made God." He explains the ways in which religion is immoral: We damage our children by indoctrinating them. It is a cause of sexual repression, violence, and ignorance. It is a distortion of our origins and the cosmos. In the place of religion, Hitchens offers the promise of a new enlightenment through science and reason, a realm in which hope and wonder can be found through a strand of DNA or a gaze through the Hubble Telescope. As Hitchens sees it, you needn't get the blues once you discover the heavens are empty.
"An impressive and enjoyable attack on everything so many people hold dear... Hitchens has outfoxed the Hitchens watchers by writing a serious and deeply felt book, totally consistent with his beliefs of a lifetime. And God should be flattered: unlike most of those clamoring for his attention, Hitchens treats him like an adult." - New York Times Book Review
"Hitchens has somehow turned out an atheist book that, whatever one's stance on divine providence, is thoroughly enjoyable...in its profane interrogation of the sacred, it achieves a kind of joyous impudence... His narrative leans briskly and unrelentingly forward, subverting an unsettling all kinds of complacencies, religious and otherwise." - Joseph Rago, Wall Street Journal- Language: English
- Dimensions: 13 х 21 cm
- Pages: 307
- Cover: softcover
- First published: 2007
- This edition published: 2021