TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hitchens,Christopher
TI  - God is not great: how religion poisons everything 
SN  - 9780446579803
AV  - BL2775.3 .H58 2007
U1  - 200 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Warner 12
KW  - Religion
KW  - Controversial literature
N1  - 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
N2  - "A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2006023039-d.html
ER  -