01704cam a2200253 4500 73392935 TxAuBib 20110321120000.0 090106s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780446697965 0446697966 YDXCP YDXCP BKL BIB AZE COD ASC TxAuBib Hitchens, Christopher. God is not great : how religion poisons everything / Christopher Hitchens. 1st trade ed. New York : Twelve Hachette Book Group, 2009. 320 p. ; 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 20110321. Religion Controversial literature. Rationalism. BSBPL