God is not Great is easily the most brilliant and fascinating contemplation upon the role of religion in human society in recent times, the Das Kapital of a tolerant, if exasperated, atheism. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. God is not Great is undoubtedly the most boisterously entertaining contribution to the debate. Grayling * Independent on Sunday *Ĭhristopher Hitchens is a master craftsman of argument. The anti-religion case has never been put so well, so comprehensively or so definitively as in this razor-sharp book. As with Voltaire, his scornful laughter is a powerful weapon. Hitchens is a grand rhetorician, and his double-barrelled shotgun of a book is high entertainment. A campaign to put this glittering anti-theist tract on the national curriculum for "religious education" should begin here. A tendentious delight, a caustic and even brilliant book. Blunt and humorous style, but he uses enough factual evidence that you may be. Do yourself a favor and skip the Dawkins and Harris they're smug, turgid, and boring, with all the human feeling of a tax return. This bestseller for religious truth seekers decomposes the historic origins of many spiritual gods and religions.
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