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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (平装)
by Christopher Hitchens
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Combining sober analysis of human history, anthropology, literature and art, Hitchens has written a stunning book, confirming that our survival depends on no god but our own will. |
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P. Jacobs (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-01 00:00>
I do believe in God, but this book does offer many logical and thought-provoking passages. Faith is up to the individual and should be respected both the for and against. I agree that religion does cause many problems in this world, and is mostly the root for all global wars. I'm on the fence here, but in my views and experiences, Christians only love their own kind and hate everyone else. They are no better than the Muslims, the Jews, nor any other religion. This book may be the way to go, worth looking at, and perhaps may give some people peace of mind and the realization that we are all in this together. |
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J. Grosser (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-01 00:00>
Christopher Hitchens, your book is really going to annoy a lot of very religious folks by getting them to think and making them defend concepts within their faiths. With authors such as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Victor Stenger, you (amongst others), I wonder if religion (as we know it) will survive. Or, will religious folks just become more radical? It should be an interesting ride. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-01 00:00>
I thoroughly appreciated Dawkins and Harris, and now Hitchens adds a crucial element to the argument which is wonderfully written and much worth reading. Though it seems there is no way to magically wake people up and coax them into being critical thinkers, these books challenge those moderates who read them carefully (forget the true believers) to really stop and ask themselves if they are being intellectually honest. I think the cognitive dissonance between what religion actually is versus what it pretends to be is building up to a breaking point in our society. Just today a video was released of a young woman being stoned to death in Iraq over a boyfriend she had with a different religious affiliation. On message boards Americans unanimously called the throng "barbaric animals", which of course they are. But I wonder how many of the people condemning the atrocity were strident worshippers of Jehovah, who explicitly commanded the same barbaric stonings to be carried out in his name for similar, if not cruder reasons. "But that was before Jesus", the Christian would say, as if somehow such an observation makes a difference. |
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Eli S. Chesen (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-01 00:00>
Hitchens's insightful and courageous book was preceeded, believe it or not by the 1971 Religin may be hazardous to your health, which I wrote, while doing my psychiatry residency. It did well but has been forgotten. Is anyone out there interested in a re-issue or new addition? I own the rights to the book. |
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Jeanne (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-01 00:00>
This book is thought provoking and rings true in every respect. Whatever your religious affiliation (or lack of affiliation), you will be dismayed to read the facts about the real effect of organized religion on human history. This book (together with Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)) could propel us to re-think all wars and re-shape the world in which we live. |
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S. Jackson (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-01 00:00>
Hitchens tends to be quite strident, which might turn some people away from what he has to offer. His points are valid, well-written, and dense with an intelligence that may not find an audience among those who should be hearing his message. At the end of Sam Harris' book, for example, the thick philosophical musings may be too much for the average reader, which defeats the purpose of books like his and Hitchens'. Dawkins, while more readable, in my opinion, is the most enjoyable among the three books, but Hitchens' is refreshing for its candor and call for accountability from believers. One hopes that his tone doesn't turn some away from the debate for being too shrill. |
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Vallo Dee (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-01 00:00>
This book reads like a conversation, but an erudite conversation. It veers off in tangents but the tangents become relevant and are always interesting and informative. The writer has a wealth of knowledge and literacy. This is a serious subject and this book deserves to be read. Read it, all of you, and then make your judgement. Do not follow blindly the opinions of your religious leaders. They do not want you to know the facts. |
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Joe Rhea (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-01 00:00>
If you want to read a book that speaks truth, then this is the book for you. Hitchens doesn't hold back, and equally reveals all of the hypocracy within all religions. His candor is refreshing, and necessary.
I think I finished the book within a week and am planning on reading again. If your tired of the religious right sticking thier nose in our business; if your tired of Muslims using God as an excuse to kill and torture, then read this book!
It's time for people of intellect to step up and speak out like Hitchens has in his book. Please read it! |
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James Tetreault (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-01 00:00>
I learned quite a lot from this book and enjoyed the process. I was aware of much of the evidence that he cited when criticizing christianity. I was not aware of the, frankly, ridiculous way the koran was created. Hitchens did a wonderful job in acknowledging the good deeds of many believers while questioning whether these good deeds could only be done in the context of a belief in god. This tome is very strongly worded without being needlessly combative. |
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Seth Katzman (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-01 00:00>
A surefire way to know a book is great is finding yourself looking up other books to which the author refers, or researching the author's quotes. After reading God is Not Great, I have a list of probably eight or ten books to read. I have already ordered Bertrand Russell's Theory and Practice of Bolshevism (1919), which early on predicted that communism was to become another brutal religion. Thanks, Hitchens. Your anger is pure, your arguments clear, your writing occasionally congested but, taken all in all, really something special. Someone asked me while I was in the middle of the book, what was different about this book from one like Sam Harris' End of Faith (which I liked): it's the sheer erudition of this volume. This book is a real tonic. |
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