God is not great : how religion poisons everything
Hitchens, Christopher2008
Book
In God is Not Great , Hitchen tweezes through the major religious texts with forensic shrewdness. With chapters entitled Religion Kills', and Is Religion Child Abuse?', he fearlessly argues for a secular life based on science and reason, tarring religion as man-made wish-thinking. He documents the ways in which religion is a cause of dangerous sexual repression and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos; in Hitchens' vision, hell is replaced by the Hubble telescope's view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the double helix. Principally, 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'.
Main title:
God is not great : how religion poisons everything / Christopher Hitchens.
Author:
Imprint:
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2008, c2007.
Collation:
371 p ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Previously published in 2007.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781741755725
Dewey class:
201.5
Language:
English
BRN:
103239
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Society | SOCIETY 201.5 HITC | Available |