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God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Author:: Christopher Hitchens (author)
Language:: English
Original language:: English
Publisher:: Twelve
Category:: Religion
Publication year:: 2007
ISBN:: 978-0-446-50945-9
Pages:: 354
Has read?: Yes
Debut?: No
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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