God Is Not Great Book Review

For those people who believe in god this book is not an attack on whether god exists or not but on the origin ethics and practice of religion per se.

God is not great book review. Christopher hitchens 1949 2011 was the author of the new york times bestsellers god is not great hitch 22. As such it an essential read to both believer and non believer as hitch examines how religions and religious leaders function or rather don t function when examined from the perspective of a calm rational mind. The case against religion. How religion poisons everything but.

Christopher hitchens s new book god is not great is the most recent and in many ways the most engaging of these exercises displaying a range of reference and a degree of energy wit and learning that the others conspicuously lack. In the tradition of bertrand russell s why i am not a christian and sam harris s recent bestseller the end of faith christopher hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion 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. Atlantic books 17 99 pp320. It sometimes seems as if existence is just one of the bones hitchens wants to pick with god and not even.

He covers everything with the same feelings i have but he has a powerful writing style and better vocabulary. With tremendous brio and great wit but also with. The first edition of the novel was published in 2007 and was written by christopher hitchens. For such a rabid god hater christopher hitchens has a very pious background.

Essays and mortality among others a regular contributor to vanity fair the atlantic monthly and slate hitchens also wrote for the weekly standard the national review and the independent and appeared on the daily show charlie rose the chris matthews show. God is not great sometimes stylized as god is not great is a 2007 book by british american author and journalist christopher hitchens in which he makes a case against organized religion it was originally published in the united kingdom by atlantic books as god is not great. The book was published in multiple languages including english consists of 307 pages and is available in hardcover format. The case against religion and in the united states by twelve as god is not great.

Free download or read online god is not great. The main characters of this non fiction religion story are albert einstein. How religion poisons everything by christopher hitchens is a book i kept hearing about and finally was able to get at the library.