God is not great :
Hitchens, Christopher.
God is not great : how religion poisons everything / Christopher Hitchens. - 1st ed. - New York : Warner 12, 2007. - 307 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.
Putting it mildly -- Religion kills -- A short digressiuon 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.
"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.
9780446579803 0446579807
2006023039
Religion--Controversial literature.
BL2775.3 / .H58 2007
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God is not great : how religion poisons everything / Christopher Hitchens. - 1st ed. - New York : Warner 12, 2007. - 307 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.
Putting it mildly -- Religion kills -- A short digressiuon 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.
"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.
9780446579803 0446579807
2006023039
Religion--Controversial literature.
BL2775.3 / .H58 2007
200