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God Is Not Great
About this book
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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abortion, Ref1, Ref2
child abuse and, Ref1
Abraham, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
child abuse and, Ref1
and immorality of religion, Ref1
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), Ref1, Ref2
Adam, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Adam Bede (Eliot), Ref1
adultery, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
and sayings and deeds of Jesus, Ref1
Afghanistan, Ref1, Ref2
and destructiveness of religion, Ref1, Ref2
health care in, Ref3
Aflaq, Michel, Ref1
afterlife, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Age of Reason (Paine), Ref1
agnostics, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Ahaz, King of Judah, Ref1
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, Ref1
Air Force Academy, U.S., Ref1
Albright, William, Ref1
Alembert, Jean Le Rond, Ref1, Ref2
Alexander I, King of Macedonia, Ref1, Ref2
Amazon basin civilizations, Ref1
Anaxagoras, Ref1, Ref2
Andrewes, Lancelot, Ref1
Anglicans, Anglican Church, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
Eastern beliefs and, Ref1
Animal Farm (Orwell), Ref1, Ref2
Antelope, Oreg., Ref1
Antietam, Battle of, Ref1, Ref2
Anti-Goeze (Lessing), Ref1
apartheid, Ref1, Ref2
apocalypse, Ref1
looking forward to, Ref1, Ref2
and relationship between morality and religion, Ref1
Apology (Plato), Ref1, Ref2
archaeology, Ref1, Ref2
Arendt, Hannah, Ref1, Ref2
Aristophanes, Ref1
Aristotle, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Armstrong, Karen, Ref1, Ref2
Ashram, Ref1
Ashura, Ref1
Aslan, Reza, Ref1
Assumption, Ref1, Ref2
astrology, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Athanasius, Saint, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- One: Putting It Mildly
- Two: Religion Kills
- Three: A Short Digression on the Pig;
- 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