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God is not great : how religion poisons everything
Title
God is not great : how religion poisons everything / Christopher Hitchens.
ISBN
9780446579803
0446579807
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Twelve, 2007.
Physical Description
307 pages ; 24 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 4621: Number line: "10 9 8 7" on title page verso indicates 7th printing. Dust jacket. Autograph: Samuel R. Delany, Barnes & Noble, June 1, 2007. Manuscript notes of Samuel R. Delany. Phone numbers for Diane Jorden and Hasan Feliz written on end leaf. Price sticker on inside front cover. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Notes
National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction, 2007
Summary
"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index.
Contents
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.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations (Provenance) - 21st century.
Also listed under
Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Literary Contacts Library.
United States New York (State) New York.
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