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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher Hitchens |
| ISBN: | 9780446579803 0446579807 |
| OCLC Number: | 70630426 |
| Description: | 307 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | Christopher Hitchens. |
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Abstract:
"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.
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