God is not great
Subtitle: how religion poisons everything
By: Christopher Hitchens
Edition: 1st trade ed.
Publisher: Twelve Hachette Book Group
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780446697965
Subjects: Controversial literature; Religion; Ouvrages de controverse; Rationalisme; Rationalism
Description: Poses a case against organized religion that documents the myriad ways in which religion reflects human agendas and distorts sexuality and the perception of the origins of the universe, in a science-based analysis that considers the benefits of a secular world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

National book award finalist.--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Putting it mildly; title: Religion kills; title: A short digression on the pig, or, Why Heaven hates ham; title: A note on health, to which religion can be hazardous; title: The metaphysical claims of religion are false; title: Arguments from design; title: Revelation : the nightmare of the Old Testament; title: The New Testament exceeds the evil of the Old one; title: The Koran is borrowed from both Jewish and Christian myths; title: The tawdriness of the miraculous and the decline of Hell; title: "The lowly stamp of their origin" : religion's corrupt beginnings; title: A coda : how religions end; title: Does religion make people behave better?; title: There is no "Eastern" solution; title: Religion as an original sin; title: Is religion child abuse?; title: An objection anticipated : the last-ditch "case" against secularism; title: A finer tradition : the resistance of the rational; title: In conclusion : the need for a new Enlightenment.