God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Now available as a value-priced edition 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 neednt get the blues once you discover the heavens are empty.