God is not great how religion poisons everything
Hitchens, Christopher
God is not great how religion poisons everything - New York Twelve 2007 - 307p. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.
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.
"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.
9780446579803
2006023039
Religion--Controversial literature.
Rationalism.
BL2775.3 / .H58 2007
200 / HI-G
God is not great how religion poisons everything - New York Twelve 2007 - 307p. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.
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.
"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.
9780446579803
2006023039
Religion--Controversial literature.
Rationalism.
BL2775.3 / .H58 2007
200 / HI-G