God Is Not Great
Christopher Hitchens
- 01 maart 2008
- 9781843548102
Samenvatting:
The provocative bestseller from Britain's foremost controversial thinker is now in paperback: 'If Hitchens didn't exist, we wouldn't be able to invent him.' Ian McEwan
'If Hitchens didn't exist, we wouldn't be able to invent him.' Ian McEwan
'Dazzling... A campaign to put this glittering anti-theist tract on the national curriculum for "religious education" should begin here.' Johann Hari, Independent
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'.
'The anti-religion case has never been put so well, so comprehensively or so definitively as in this razor-sharp book... Hitchens accumulates a devastating case... Outstanding.' A. C. Grayling, Independent on Sunday
'A tendentious delight, a caustic and even brilliant book... Thank God for Christopher Hitchens.' Mark Warren, Esquire
'We have been told countless times about the goodness of religion; Hitchens gives the case for the prosecution... His indictments are trenchant and witty, and the book is a treasure house of zingers.' Daniel C. Dennett
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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'.