God Is Not Great

Christopher Hitchens

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN:
  9780857897152
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Atheism

In G od is Not Great Hitchens turned his formidable eloquence and rhetorical energy to the most controversial issue in the world: God and religion. The result is a devastating critique of religious faith

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'.

INDEX

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

atheists, atheism, Ref1

and destructiveness of relig...

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