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100 1 $aHitchens, Christopher
245 10 $aGod is not great :$bhow religion poisons everything /$cChristopher Hitchens
250 $a1st trade ed.
260 $aNew York :$bTwelve Hachette Book Group,$c2009.
264 1 $aNew York :$bTwelve Hachette Book Group,$c2009.
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505 0 $aPutting 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
520 $aPoses a case against organized religion that documents the myriad ways in which religion reflects human agendas and distorts sexuality and the perception of the origins of the universe, in a science-based analysis that considers the benefits of a secular world
586 $aNational book award finalist.--Cover
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