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Rent God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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Narrator: Christopher Hitchens
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Published: May 2007
Genre: Social Science - Sociology Of Religion
Retail Price: $19.98
Discs: 8
Synopsis
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Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as 'one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time 'takes on his biggest subject yet--the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world.
With his unique brand of erudition and wit, Hitchens describes the ways in which religion is man-made. 'God did not make us,' he says. 'We made God.' He explains the ways in which religion is immoral: We damage our children by indoctrinating them. It is a cause of sexual repression, violence, and ignorance. It is a distortion of our origins and the cosmos. In the place of religion, Hitchens offers the promise of a new enlightenment through science and reason, a realm in which hope and wonder can be found through a strand of DNA or a gaze through the Hubble Telescope. As Hitchens sees it, you needn't get the blues once you discover the heavens are empty.
Reviews
Much of this book seemed like it was much older than it really was. As an agnostic he just comes off as a party pooper since much of life is just a pleasant fiction to avoid our own thoughts of mortality. I dont normally write reviews. I was motivated because he said very clearly in the book that John Adams was a slave owner and that upset me because most of our founding fathers were not Christians so he makes the link to Adams' Christianity as being duplicitous of course since he was a slave owner. Convienant for the author but completly wrong in its ***eration. It made me mad because its so easy to say relegion ***** you don't have to fudge the facts to do it. So it kinda made me feel like he was over zealous to the point of relegiousness in his atheism.