God Is Not Great - Softcover

Hitchens, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843548100 ISBN 13: 9781843548102

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2008

Synopsis

God Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made, dangerously sexually repressive and distorts the very origins of the cosmos. Above all, Hitchens argues that the concept of an omniscient God has profoundly damaged humanity, and proposes that the world might be a great deal better off without 'him'.

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Review:

Do yourself a favor and skip the Dawkins and Harris; they're smug, turgid, and boring, with all the human feeling of a tax return. Read Hitchens instead... A tendentious delight, a caustic and even brilliant book... Thank God for Christopher Hitchens. Author: Mark Warren Source: Esquire

Dazzling... A campaign to put this glittering anti-theist tract on the national curriculum for "religious education" should begin here. Author: Johann Hari Source: Independent

Hitchens is a grand rhetorician, and his double-barrelled shotgun of a book is high entertainment... As with Voltaire, his scornful laughter is a powerful weapon. Author: Christopher Hart Source: Sunday Times

The anti-religion case has never been put so well, so comprehensively or so definitively as in this razor-sharp book... Hitchens accumulates a devastating case... Outstanding. Author: A.C. Grayling Source: Independent on Sunday

Christopher Hitchens is a master craftsman of argument... God is not Great is undoubtedly the most boisterously entertaining contribution to the [atheism] debate. Author: Siobhan Murphy Source: Metro

God is not Great is easily the most brilliant and fascinating contemplation upon the role of religion in human society in recent times, the Das Kapital of a tolerant, if exasperated, atheism. Author: Kevin Myers Source: Irish Independent

From the Author:

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and Visiting Professor in liberal studies at the New School in New York. He was the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, George Orwell, Mother Theresa, Henry Kissinger and Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as the international bestseller and National Book Award nominee, god Is Not Great.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1843548100
• ISBN 13: 9781843548102
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320