num_pages: 217
description: This book is not just for atheists but for antitheistsfor people who celebrated the writing of Christopher Hitchens and miss his voice Making the provocative assertion that the entire enterprise of organized religion is a thing for which the world and our species would have been better without Oh Your God! follows in the footsteps of the material observations of Lucretius Epicurus and Democritus and the more recent antitheistic arguments of Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. Drawing from timeless philosophers modern debates historical events and current social climes Joshua Kelly illustrates the shameful and debilitating damage religion has causedand continues to causewhether to our psyches our bodies our societies or our world. Citing the murders of Nigeria's witch children the subversion of sexual emancipation the tethers of slavery the attacks of September 11 the pseudomorality of monotheistic mythology the subjugation of women and much more he provides an abundance of damning evidence to back up his claims. Only by acknowledging and grappling with the real and potential dangers of religion he argues will we be able to thrive and develop as a species.
language: English
title: Oh, Your God!: The Evil Idea That Is Religion
publisher: Pitchstone Publishing