God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything [Hardcover]

'A serious and deeply felt book, totally consistent with his
beliefs of a lifetime. And God should be flattered: unlike most of those
clamoring for his attention, Hitchens treats him like an adult.' --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

'Thank God for Christopher Hitchens. For he has written the finest
of the down-with-God books.'
--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Dazzling... It shows Hitchens can still intellectually get it up, and
how... --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Like everything Christopher writes, it is often elegant,
frequently witty and never stupid or boring. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Hitchens's book will be manna to the converted --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Hitchens is a grand rhetorician, and his double-barrelled shotgun
of a book is high entertainment. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

...Christopher Hitchens is a master craftsman of argument... 'God
Is Not Great' is undoubtedly the most boisterously entertaining
contribution to the [atheism] debate.
--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

'Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief
is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not hold our
convictions dogmatically. We believe with certainty that an ethical life
can be lived without religion. And we know for a fact that the corollary
holds true - that religion has caused innumerable people not just to
conduct themselves no beter than others, but to award themselves permission
to behave in ways that would make a brothel-keeper or an ethnic cleanser
raise an eyebrow.' From the introduction to God Is Not Great.

In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian,
Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series
of acute readings of the major religious texts, he demonstrates the ways in
which religion is man-made, dangerously sexually repressive and distorts
the very origins of the cosmos. With robust clarity, Hitchens frames the
argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell
is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe and
Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the
double helix.

God is Not Great marvels at the possibility of society without religion,
arguing that the concept of an omniscient God has profoundly damaged
humanity. Hitchens proposes instead that the world might be a great deal
better off without `him'. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Christopher Hitchens is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and
Visiting Professor in Liberal Studies at the New School in New Yrok. He was
named as one of the world's 'Top 100 Public Intellecutals' by Foreign
Policy and Prospect. His books include Love, Poverty & War and Blood, Class
& Empire. His biography of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man was published by
Atlantic Books in 2006. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.