God is Not Great

"God Is Not Great" is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made, dangerously sexually repressive and distorts the very origins of the cosmos. Above all, Hitchens argues that the concept of an omniscient God has profoundly damaged humanity, and proposes that the world might be a great deal better off without 'him'.

ISBN 1843545748   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781843545743 (What's this?)   Pages 320 Publisher Atlantic Books   Published in London Imprint Atlantic Books   Previous ISBN 9781843545736 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 08 Sep 2007   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 210   Academic level General

"'If Hitchens didn't exist, we wouldn't be able to invent him.' Ian McEwan 'Do yourself a favor and skip the Dawkins and Harris; they're smug, turgid, and boring, with all the human feeling of a tax return. Read Hitchens instead... A tendentious delight, a caustic and even brilliant book... Thank God for Christopher Hitchens.' - Mark Warren, Esquire 'Dazzling... A campaign to put this glittering anti-theist tract on the national curriculum for "religious education" should begin here.' - Johann Hari, Independent 'Hitchens is a grand rhetorician, and his double-barrelled shotgun of a book is high entertainment... As with Voltaire, his scornful laughter is a powerful weapon.' - Christopher Hart, Sunday Times 'The anti-religion case has never been put so well, so comprehensively or so definitively as in this razor-sharp book... Hitchens accumulates a devastating case... Outstanding.' - A.C. Grayling, Independent on Sunday 'Christopher Hitchens is a master craftsman of argument... God is not Great is undoubtedly the most boisterously entertaining contribution to the [atheism] debate.' - Siobhan Murphy, Metro 'God is not Great is easily the most brilliant and fascinating contemplation upon the role of religion in human society in recent times, the Das Kapital of a tolerant, if exasperated, atheism.' - Kevin Myers, Irish Independent"

More of a comedic foray into the atheist argument than a serious evaluation of the contradictions of religion. Its difficult to dissuade oneself that Hitchens thought to capitalise on Dawkins numerous titles, whilst appealing to the less well educated section of society,putting it gently. There is much in the way of vehemence and diatribe - certainly Hitchens is no stranger to the shock tactic. However, there is little objective thought here and for serious campaigners of religious abolition he has lowered the intellectual level of the atheist argument. A poor effort in all, but a cynical one in terms of fundraising. - kelly ferrera



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