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Author Hitchens, Christopher.

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

Imprint New York : Twelve, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  200 H636g 2007    ---  Available
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  200 H636g 2007 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.
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.
Subject Religion -- Controversial literature.
Rationalism.
ISBN 9780446579803
0446579807
Standard No. YDXCP 2537013
NZ1 10914138
AU@ 000040502860
NLGGC 305532766

 
    
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