He documents the ways in which religion is a cause of dangerous sexual repression and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos in Hitchen's vision, hell is replaced by the Hubble telescope's view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the double helix. With chapters entitled Religion Kills', and Is Religion Child Abuse?', he fearlessly argues for a secular life based on science and reason, tarring religion as man-made wish-thinking. In God is Not Great, Hitchen tweezes through the major religious texts with forensic shrewdness. Here he makes the ultimate case against organised religion. Ĭhristopher Hitchens has been hailed as 'one of the most brilliant journalists of our time' (UK Observer ). 'This is easily the most impressive of the present crop of atheistic and anti-theistic books: clever, broad, witty and brilliantly argued.' - Sydney Morning Herald.
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