| Full title |
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything [permalink] |
| Language |
English |
| Author |
Christopher Hitchens (author) |
| Publisher |
Twelve |
| Category |
Religion |
| Publication year |
2007 |
| ISBN |
978-0-446-50945-9 [Amazon, B&N, Abe, Powell's] |
| Pages |
354 |
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| Structure |
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- One: Putting It Mildly
- Two: Religion Kills
- Three: A Short Digression on the Pig: or, Why Heaven Hates Ham
- Four: A Note on Health, to Which Religion Can Be Hazardous
- Five: The Metaphysical Claims of Religion Are False
- Six: Arguments from Design
- Seven: Revelation: The Nightmare of the "Old" Testament
- Eight: The "New" Testament Exceeds the Evil of the "Old" One
- Nine: The Koran Is Borrowed from Both Jewish and Christian Myths
- Ten: The Tawdriness of the Miraculous and the Decline of Hell
- Eleven: "The Lowly Stamp of Their Origin": Religion's Corrupt Beginnings
- Twelve: A Coda: How Religions End
- Thirteen: Does Religion Make people Behave Better?
- Fourteen: There Is No "Eastern" Solution
- Fifteen: Religion as an Original Sin
- Sixteen: Is Religion Child Abuse?
- Seventeen: An Objection Anticipated: The Last-Ditch "Case" Against Secularism
- Eighteen: A Finer Tradition: The Resistance of the Rational
- Nineteen: In Conclusion: The Need for a New Enlightenment
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Index
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