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God is not great : how religion poisons everything / Christopher Hitchens.

By: Publication details: New York : Twelve, 2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: 307 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780446579803
  • 0446579807
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 200 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2775.3 .H58 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks BL2775.3 .H58 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000777259

"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.

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.

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