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This internationally acclaimed, and easily understood, quasiphilosophical evaluation of religion warrants consideration, regardless of ones disposition. Christopher hitchens, a contributing editor to vanity fair, slate, and the atlantic, authored numerous books, including works on thomas jefferson, thomas paine, and george orwell. Nov 19, 2008 christopher hitchens, a contributing editor to vanity fair, slate, and the atlantic, authored numerous books, including works on thomas jefferson, thomas paine, and george orwell. Synopsis god is not great is the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a manmade wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. He reportedly died from complications from esophageal cancer.
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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and since there is no other metaphor also the soul. God is not great ebook written by christopher hitchens. Nov 01, 2011 god is not great is the ultimate case against religion. He jumps around from example to example, barely attempting to put together any coherent argument, making for an exhausting and not very satisfying read. Christopher hitchenss new book, god is not great, is the most recent and in many ways the most engaging of these exercises, displaying a range of reference and a degree of energy, wit, and learning that the others conspicuously lack.
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Christopher hitchens was a world renowned and oftcontroversial philosopher, journalist, novelist and debater that spent the majority of his life involved in debates with those whose views he disagreed with, providing lectures and appearing on talk shows regularly throughout his professional career. In the tradition of bertrand russells why i am not a christian and sam harriss recent bestseller the end of faith, christopher hitchens makes the ultimate case. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 307 pages and is available in hardcover format. In his polemical and sometimes bombastic tome, god is not great. Christopher hitchens was born in england and became a u. How religion poisons everything by christopher hitchens. To serve as umpire and referee, i have asked jacob weisberg, the editor of slate, the free online daily magazine offering analysis and commentary about politics, news, and culture, to welcome on the stage christopher hitchens and al sharpton. God is not great ebook by christopher hitchens 9780446195348. Hitchens laments that the faithful of whatever persuasion have believed what the priests and rabbis and imams tell them about what the unbelievers think 10, and it follows he rages that priests, rabbis and imams would presume to know or communicate what atheists think and why. He was also the author of the international bestsellers god is not great. Free download god is not great pdf full pdf directory. God is not great merely offers a fleeting critique of what we think of.
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