God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and
reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry
of the double helix.
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 28, 2008 Type: User Review |
So Who Doesn't Exist?
Christopher Hitchens does not exist. This is obvious when you look at the matter with the eye of scientific inquiry. There is a physical assemblage of atoms, quite a number of biological oddities like kidneys and dendrons, but as I probe and...
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 28, 2008 Type: User Review |
Difficult to get through, but learned some
I think this would be a more enjoyable audio book than a written book, as it was challenging to get through at points. I thought Hitchens was unneccessarily snarky in spots, which eroded the power of some of his argument/statements. Overall, I am...
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 28, 2008 Type: User Review |
Well thought out arguments
I'll start out by saying that I agreed with many of the premises of this book before purchasing and reading it. That being said - I don't think these types of books are about persuading a religious person to give up their faith. Their intention...
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 27, 2008 Type: User Review |
Nietzsche's "Antichrist" for the 21st Century
Whatever one thinks of Hitchens and his new book, at least one cannot accuse him of beating about the bush. Although he is (in)famous for NOT verbally beating another Bush, when it comes to God, Hitchens gets out the big cane of an Enlightenment...
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 26, 2008 Type: User Review |
Christopher Hutchens is a Pessi-Mystic.
Scientists say that we use our senses and perceptions to gather objective evidence that leads by valid logical deductive inference to the scientifically reproducible discovery that an idea that something exists is true and that is how...
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 12, 2008 Type: User Review |
A must-read for the inquisitive mind
A tour de force for the skeptical mind. His unrelenting style catches some off guard and offends many believers, but his conclusions are unassailable. If you have any interest in religion, God is Not Great has something for you. Though not for the...
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 08, 2008 Type: User Review |
Great Is Not God
I'm something of a Hitchens fan. I enjoy his books, as much for their unimpeachable grammar as for their arguments. The man has a solid intellect. But he seems to give little creedence to the way religion is actually lived by average people.
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 03, 2008 Type: User Review |
This is going on my top shelf...
I save my highest shelf for only my most favorite, treasured books. Hitchens' latest, _God Is Not Great_, is certainly one of these. Not only are his well-argued views fascinating to read, they are also a *pleasure* to read due to his gifted,...
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 02, 2008 Type: User Review |
Good but not great.
While Hitchens' book is entertaining I recommend that anyone looking for a serious and intellectually solid discussion of atheism read David Eller's Natural Atheism and his follow-up book Atheism Advanced. Mr. Eller gets down to the real...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 22, 2008 Type: User Review |
God is not just "not great", he is dangerous
Christopher Hitchens is a passionate, and slightly provocative, non-believer and the title (and subtitle) makes it abundantly clear what he thinks of all forms of religions.
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