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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Atlantic Books; Reprint edition (10 Jun 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1843545861
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843545866
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (153 customer reviews)
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59 of 62 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars It's exactly what it claims to be, 13 May 2009
By Simon Hall (Dublin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Paperback)
This book is EXTREMELY well written. Witty, informative, and determined.

Many one-star-ers have noted that this book is one of two things:

1. The Atheist Camp claim that this book is not as 'good' as the God Delusion by Richard Dawkins - the arguments are difficult to follow, it's not as scientific or academic as it might be.

Well, Christopher is not a scientist. The book is a fantastic diatribe against the parties of God - it doesn't claim to be anything more. It's a wonderful contribution to atheistic literature. It's funny, clever and well-researched. It's not supposed to be an academic thesis.

2. The God Camp claim that Hitchens succeed in attacking religion, but doesn't manage to prove that God himself does not exist.

While he outlines his reasons for not believing in God, Hitchens does not set out to prove that God does not exist. He sets out to do what it says underneath his main title - to demonstrate how religion poisons everything - and he does a fantastic job.

This book is highly recommended to those who want to laugh and cry at the same time.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Basic Curriculum of Atheism, 16 Sep 2009
By Wallenius Jaakko (Lohja, Finland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Paperback)
The magnificent book by Christopher Hitchens "God is Not Great - How Religion Poisons Everything" is a must read for all atheists, as Christopher Hitchens dares to say aloud all most atheist have been thinking in privacy of their own mind, but have not dared to say aloud in fear of hurting the feelings of the believers.

Christopher Hitchens does not fear anybody and anything when he thinks that he smells the truth. He fires salvo after salvo and sinks the whole flotilla of the theists in the process.

In this level there is a need for even real physical courage, as a writer living in the United States Christopher Hitchens knows very well that he will be a target for all religious fanatics out there. Islam gets the rudest battering in the hands of Christopher Hitchens as he dismisses it as a weak plagiary of the older Faiths of the Book.

Christopher Hitchens is as a writer the brightest star of the league of the New Atheism writers. His writing is at same time both hard-hitting and extremely entertaining. Christopher Hitchens fires homing missiles in the weakest points of the religions and they really hurt.

Christopher Hitchens is more of a free agent than Richard Dawkins, as he does not seek scientific analysis like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, but he takes advantage of his wonderful knowledge of literature, history and philosophy. He uses this ammunition to pound the religions with a barrage of ideas.

Christopher Hitchens strikes equally at all organized religions and does not spare the wonders of the Far East. Hinduism and Buddhism take their own share of Christopher Hitchens' ire and even Japanese Shinto's is not spared a few lashes.

The main focus is understandably however in the Christian religions, but Christopher Hitchens shows real passion, when he lets go at the Islam.

The argumentation in the book is often familiar to anybody steeped in atheistic thinking, but the angle of attack is new and refreshing. Christopher Hitchens is not afraid of interpreting things and events through his own persona and personal history.

Christopher Hitchens has traveled widely also in the world of Islam and has studied carefully the history of this religion and through his personal contacts he can give a vivid picture of it.

Christopher Hitchens does not hide his goals. His goal is to show how the major religions of today have long since passed their last selling day and how they are remnants from the days when there was nothing better on offer. They are remnants from the days when even crude and pointless explanation of the world was better than no explanation at all.

Christopher Hitchens is out to show the role of religions as man-made systems of thought and he confirmed at least me so easily, that I didn't even break sweat.
This book is a polemic statement, but it does not make it a bad book. Christopher Hitchens does not make any compromises and does not even try to understand the arguments of the other side. The net result is a magnificent book that should find its place in every atheist's bookshelf.

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247 of 269 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Clever, Very Readable and Pretty Convincing Too, 2 Jun 2007
By Mr. C. S. Smith "VladtheImpala" (Las Vegas, Nevada) - See all my reviews
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Firstly - I've read the US version of this book, "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything", this is why I can write a review.
If you just want to comment on Hitchens/Atheism in general (either for or against) then please do it somewhere else!

I wasn't the greatest Hitchens fan but I have to admit that this book is something special. It's well written with lots of entertaining anecdotes and is easily more readable than Dawkins "The God Delusion". The pages fly by and his points are interesting and well made.

Obviously I was expecting a rabid attack on all things godly yet Hitchens turns out to be cleverer than that. He insists that people should be free to believe what they want - they just shouldn't try to force their beliefs on others. There's the expected examination of the Abrahamic religions here (yes, including Islam) but also critiques of other faiths too. Intelligent and inventive, this was far far better than the book that I was expecting.

Overall it's a great read with a convincing message that has convinced me to look at Hitchens back catalogue to see what other gems are hidden there...

I dare you to read this!
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