God is not great :how religion poisons everything /Christopher Hitchens.
Description
Putting it mildly -- Religion kills -- A short digression on the pig; or, Why Heaven hates ham -- A note on health, to which religion can be hazardous -- The metaphysical claims of religion are false -- Arguments from design -- Revelation: the nightmare of the "Old" Testament -- The "New" Testament exceeds the evil of the "Old" one -- The Koran is borrowed from both Jewish and Christian myths -- The tawdriness of the miraculous and the decline of Hell -- "The lowly stamp of their origin": religion's corrupt beginnings -- A coda: how religions end -- Does religion make people behave better? -- There is no "Eastern" solution -- Religion as an original sin -- Is religion child abuse? -- An objection anticipated: the last-ditch "case" against secularism -- A finer tradition: the resistance of the rational -- In conclusion: the need for a new enlightenment.
307 p. ;24 cm.
Book Details
Author
Hitchens, Christopher.
Place Published
City
New York
Date Published
2007
Publication Subjects
Religion--Controversial literature.
Call No.
BL2775.3 .H58 2007
ISBN
9780446579803, 0446579807
LCCN
2006023039
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.