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Author:
Hitchens, Christopher.
Title:
God is not great : how religion poisons everything / Christopher Hitchens.
Publisher:
Twelve Hachette Book Group,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
320 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Religion--Controversial literature.
Rationalism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN:
9780446697965
0446697966
OCLC:
(OCoLC)297206911
Locations:
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
FWPE284 -- Manchester Public Library (Manchester)
CHPB482 -- North English Public Library (North English)
PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)
PWAX296 -- Southeastern Community College - West Burlington - Yohe Memorial Library (West Burlington) — 200 H674g

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