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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens, 2007
GenevaBookClub: Hitchens contends that organised religion is "violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children" and sectarian, and that accordingly it "ought to have a great deal on its conscience." Hitchens supports his position with a mixture of personal stories, documented historical anecdotes and critical analysis of religious texts. His commentary focuses mainly on the Abrahamic religions, although it also touches on other religions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism.Theologian David Bentley Hart wrote in First Things that God Is Not Great shows no sign whatsoever that he ever intended anything other than a rollicking burlesque.
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