Christopher Hitchens has been hailed as 'one of the most brilliant journalists of our time' (UK *Observer*). Here he makes the ultimate case against organised religion.
Combined with a detailed reading of the major religious tests, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. In Hitchens' view hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and th burning bush give way to the beauty and the symmetry of the double helix.
With chapters entitled 'Religion Kills', 'The "New" Testament Exceeds the Evil of the "Old" One', 'The Koran is Borrowed from Both Jewish and Christian Myths', and 'Is Religion Child Abuse?' Hitchens argues provocatively for a secular life based on science and reason rather than the myths of a man-made wish.
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Christopher Hitchens has been hailed as 'one of the most brilliant journalists of our time' (UK *Observer*). Here he makes the ultimate case against organised religion. Combined with a detailed reading of the major religious tests, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. In Hitchens' view hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and th burning bush give way to the beauty and the symmetry of the double helix. With chapters entitled 'Religion Kills', 'The "New" Testament Exceeds the Evil of the "Old" One', 'The Koran is Borrowed from Both Jewish and Christian Myths', and 'Is Religion Child Abuse?' Hitchens argues provocatively for a secular life based on science and reason rather than the myths of a man-made wish.