God is not great : how religion poisons everything

Author

Christopher Hitchens

Call Number

• 200 H6749 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Twelve, 2007.

Physical Description

307 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary

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

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.