God is not great how religion poisons everything
In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not aChristian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End ofFaith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate caseagainst religion. With a close and erudite reading of themajor religious texts, he documents the ways in whichreligion is a man-ma...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; Boston :
Twelve
2007
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
