Hitchens, Christopher
God is not great : how religion poisons everything Christopher Hitchens - 1st ed. - New York Twelve 2007. - 307 p. 24 cm.
Putting it mildly -- Religion kills -- A short digression on the pig; or, Why Heaven hates ham -- A note on health, to which religion can be hazardous -- The metaphysical claims of religion are false -- Arguments from design -- Revelation: the nightmare of the "Old" Testament -- The "New" Testament exceeds the evil of the "Old" one -- The Koran is borrowed from both Jewish and Christian myths -- The tawdriness of the miraculous and the decline of Hell -- "The lowly stamp of their origin": religion's corrupt beginnings -- A coda: how religions end -- Does religion make people behave better? -- There is no "Eastern" solution -- Religion as an original sin -- Is religion child abuse? -- An objection anticipated: the last-ditch "case" against secularism -- A finer tradition: the resistance of the rational -- In conclusion: the need for a new enlightenment.
"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.
9780446579803 0446579807
2006023039
Religion
Philosophy
Science vs. religion
200 Hit 8
God is not great : how religion poisons everything Christopher Hitchens - 1st ed. - New York Twelve 2007. - 307 p. 24 cm.
Putting it mildly -- Religion kills -- A short digression on the pig; or, Why Heaven hates ham -- A note on health, to which religion can be hazardous -- The metaphysical claims of religion are false -- Arguments from design -- Revelation: the nightmare of the "Old" Testament -- The "New" Testament exceeds the evil of the "Old" one -- The Koran is borrowed from both Jewish and Christian myths -- The tawdriness of the miraculous and the decline of Hell -- "The lowly stamp of their origin": religion's corrupt beginnings -- A coda: how religions end -- Does religion make people behave better? -- There is no "Eastern" solution -- Religion as an original sin -- Is religion child abuse? -- An objection anticipated: the last-ditch "case" against secularism -- A finer tradition: the resistance of the rational -- In conclusion: the need for a new enlightenment.
"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.
9780446579803 0446579807
2006023039
Religion
Philosophy
Science vs. religion
200 Hit 8