num_pages: 320
description: Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as “one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time” takes on his biggest subject yet–the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world.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.
language: English
title: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
titlecomplete: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
characters: Jesus, Sam Harris, Walter Kirn, Dalai Lama XIV, Richard Gere, Daniel Dennett, Allah, Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Falwell Sr., John Frum, Mahatma Gandhi, Stephen Jay Gould, Joseph Smith, Baruch Spinoza, Joseph Stalin, Mary, mother of Jesus (Bible), E.P. Thompson, Karen Armstrong, Jennifer Michael Hecht, God, Voltaire, Muhammad (Quran), Albert Einstein, Steven Seagal, Mother Teresa, Omar Khayyám, Richard Dawkins, Jawaharlal Nehru, Moses, Osama Bin Laden, Dennis Prager, Henry VIII of England, Malcolm Muggeridge
genres: Religion, Atheism, Politics, Philosophy, Science, Nonfiction, Audiobook, Theology, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 104627
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Mclelland & Stewart