02076cam a2200301 4500 481594479 TxAuBib 20210101120000.0 060713s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006023039 9780446579803 0446579807 (OCoLC)70630426 DLC DLC BAKER BTCTA YDXCP VPL NSB JED C#P DLC TxAuBib Hitchens, Christopher. God is not great : how religion poisons everything / Christopher Hitchens. 1st ed. New York : Twelve, 2007. 307 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index. 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. 20210101. Religion Controversial literature. Rationalism. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2006023039-d.html Publisher description https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2006023039-b.html Contributor biographical information