TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hitchens,Christopher
TI  - God is not great: how religion poisons everything 
SN  - 9780446579803
AV  - BL2775.3 .H58 2007
U1  - 200 HIT 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Twelve
KW  - Religion
KW  - Controversial literature
KW  - Rationalism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index; Putting 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
N2  - "A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher
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UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2006023039-b.html
ER  -