God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens

Catherine Shoard5 April 2012

Christopher Hitchens was born Anglican, educated Methodist, converted to Greek Orthodoxy by his first wife and remarried by a rabbi. It's with some experience, then, that he deems religion "violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry".

While Richard Dawkins tells us why there is no God, Hitch tells us off for still worshipping one, producing, with considerable flourish, a long and expertly researched litany of the evils done in His name. Whichever side you're on, it is - in the words of Daniel Plainview - one goddamn helluva show.

Synopsis from Foyles.co.uk

"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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