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Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great

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In god is Not Great Hitchens turned his formidable eloquence and rhetorical energy to the most controversial issue in the world: God and religion. The result is a devastating critique of religious faith
god Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made, dangerously sexually repressive and distorts the very origins of the cosmos. Above all, Hitchens argues that the concept of an omniscient God has profoundly damaged humanity, and proposes that the world might be a great deal better off without 'him'.
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Правообладатель
Bookwire
Дата публикации оригинала
2011
Год выхода издания
2011
Издательство
Atlantic Books
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Впечатления

  • Imran Baghirovделится впечатлением8 лет назад
    💩Utter Crap

    Book which tries to link people problems to religions. Surface focused. Symptom fokused. Not core.

  • Natanowicz Fabianделится впечатлением5 лет назад

    Hítchens tiene la inmensa cualidad de su gran capacidad intelectual, su inmensa cultura y preparación y un muy fino estilo de escritura ligado a un inteligente sarcasmo a todo lo largo de sus capítulos. Gracias.

  • Jimmy Gregersenделится впечатлением7 лет назад
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🚀Unputdownable

    A must read for non believers, sceptics and devout believers. We all have a responsibility to make this world a better place, and this book clearly shows that faith is not the solution for this objective.

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  • Kiranaцитирует7 месяцев назад
    f the intended reader of this book should want to go beyond disagreement with its author and try to identify the sins and deformities that animated him to write it (and I have certainly noticed that those who publicly affirm charity
  • Martina Sidumiso Pedersenцитирует4 года назад
    Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it used to be able, by its total command of a world-view, to prevent the emergence of rivals, it can now only impede and retard—or try to turn back—the measurable advances that we have made. Sometimes, true, it will artfully concede them. But this is to offer itself the choice between irrelevance and obstruction, impotence or outright reaction, and, given this choice, it is programmed to select the worse of the two. Meanwhile, confronted with undreamed-of vistas inside our own evolving cortex, in the farthest reaches of the known universe, and in the proteins and acids which constitute our nature, religion offers either annihilation in the name of god, or else the false promise that if we take a knife to our foreskins, or pray in the right direction, or ingest pieces of wafer, we shall be “saved.” It is as if someone, offered a delicious and fragrant out-of-season fruit, matured in a painstakingly and lovingly designed hothouse, should throw away the flesh and the pulp and gnaw moodily on the pit.
  • Martina Sidumiso Pedersenцитирует4 года назад
    point of fact, we do not have the option of “choosing” absolute truth, or faith. We only have the right to say, of those who do claim to know the truth of revelation, that they are deceiving themselves and attempting to deceive—or to intimidate— others. Of course, it is better and healthier for the mind to “choose” the path of skepticism and inquiry in any case, because only by continual exercise of these faculties can we hope to achieve anything. Whereas religions, wittily defined by Simon Blackburn in his study of Plato’s Republic, are merely “fossilized philosophies,” or philosophy with the questions left out. To “choose” dogma and faith over doubt and experiment is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

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