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God is not great : how religion poisons everything
- Title
- God is not great : how religion poisons everything / Christopher Hitchens.
- Author
- Hitchens, Christopher.
- Publication
- New York : Twelve, 2007.
- Supplementary Content
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 07-5065 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-5065
- ISBN
- 9780446579803 (hc)
- 0446579807 (hc)
- LCCN
- 2006023039
- OCLC
- 70630426
- Author
- Hitchens, Christopher.
- Title
- God is not great : how religion poisons everything / Christopher Hitchens.
- Imprint
- New York : Twelve, 2007.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-5065