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God Is Not Great

How Religion Poisons Everything
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Feb 04, 2024The_Most_Casual_Observer rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Just checking in to laugh at ‘samslick,’ who says that famed physicist Georges Lemaître was a Jesuit. No, he was an ordinary diocesan priest, not a Jesuit nor a Benedictine or a Franciscan or a Dominican either! How do these stories get…
Jan 20, 2024aplbrandon rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
So good. Hitchens methodically peels back the layers and exposes the badness we've gotten from religion. No one is spared. The Abrahamic faiths get a treatment but so do religions of the east as well. He is both exhaustive and clinical. …
Jun 20, 2023GeneralAmerica rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Great book!
Jan 11, 2018Spirit_of_Che rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This should be required reading in all high schools or colleges. It's time we move on from the religious dogma that pervades American life and start respecting science and true knowledge.
Oct 11, 2017imaryg rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Definitely not his greatest book. All over the map. Doesn't come together well.
Sep 07, 2017snowish rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A much needed book. Hitchens notes that religion is always the loudest critic of freedom of speech. I find that this statement is an interesting parallel to today's Western world where freedom of speech is under fire from those who fear to…
May 18, 2017silfron rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Hitchens makes some good points, but while he claims to make arguments against the existence of a god he only seems to make arguments against religion, which is not the same thing. Also, the writing style is incredibly repetitive and…
Feb 25, 2017comics_on_craigslist rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Hitchens presents an intelligent and highly reasoned case for a new age of enlightenment without the unnecessary burdens and dogma of anyone’s god. The monotheistic gods and religions need to be relegated to the status of myth and folktale…
Dec 15, 2016
A great work by an extremely witty and erudite intellectual. Hitchens picks apart religious belief and practice and argues that all of it is utter nonsense that doesn't rest on any sound evidence or principles and isn't moral.
Mar 29, 2016rswcove rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This is not Hitchens' best book, but it is a highly readable book. And it is, judging from the hysteria it provoked, a highly needed book. That Hitchens' is not wrong in his points is very much the point. The author has only to…
Mar 08, 2016danielestes rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
If you love Hitch, don't miss his latest withering take on religious belief and its institutions. As criticism goes, God Is Not Great is scathing and unforgiving. But since it's Christopher Hitchens we're talking about here, it's all in a…
Feb 21, 2016naturalist rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.” and, “The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.” and, “In the very recent…
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Feb 05, 2016tenniscat rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Hitchens wrote this in response to the religious zealots who were screaming "God is Great" when they flew airplanes into our buildings. Religion does poison everything but let them have their mythology. I do not want anymore zealots…
Jan 06, 2015
Decent but as others said, somewhat disorgarnised. I was on his side before reading but the book did not move me further either way and it does not read as a mind-changer. I would call this Chicken Soup for the (already) Atheist...
Nov 24, 2014Persnickety77 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Hitchens is pretty pretentious, pompous and self-righteous, and while i have to believe that religion MUST serve some good purpose, it is nevertheless hard to argue with what he says here.
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Oct 15, 2014jericho_taylor rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Had to chuckle at "samslick" and his " book review ". Incredibly shabby book he says and then suggests that Christopher Hitchens is unable to make a balanced cogent argument. Since when was Hitch required to give or even say he was EVER…
Oct 01, 2014ManMachine rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
OK! OK! OK!... So, God Is Not GREAT!... Yeah? Alright. I get it.... I mean, I could've easily told you that much about God, myself (and not taken up 307 pages, like author Christopher Hitchens did, doing so). And, speaking about…
Jun 24, 2014Punkrocknroll rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Great book intelligent and systematic Hitchens dismantles religion for what it is. A man made farce that has and continues to do much more harm than good. I guess that explains why Noah never saved talking snakes like that one in the…
Sep 25, 2013naturalist rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." Bertrand Russell Read more at…
Mar 25, 2013samslick rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Incredibly shabby book. The author brings up a subject, condemns religion with sarcastic insults and then moves along. He (purposely) makes no attempt to make any balanced, cogent arguments. An example might be religion and…
Mar 13, 2013
Christopher digs deeper than what is on the surface to ingrain into his reader and even more passionate resentment for religion. He dis-spells any notion that religion does even a bit of good in the world. Its too easy to condemn those who…
Oct 11, 2012uzebdrumz rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Christopher Hitchens is not a fan of god; any god. He provides many compelling reasons to reject theism and embrace anti-theism, not atheism; because "life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually the case."
Oct 11, 2012Librawyrm rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Well written, though a bit verbose. Referenced ideas using uncommon or obscure data were difficult to follow. I would highly recommend reading this book if you are able and willing to consider a perspective critical of ideology based…
Apr 22, 2012Janice21383 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
At last! a denunciation of religion as severe and malicious as the denunciations by the religious of atheism, or denunciations by the religious of rival religions.