God Is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great

By Christopher Hitchens

  • Release Date: 2007-05-01
  • Genre: Religion & Spirituality
Score: 4
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Description

Whether you're a lifelong believer, a devout atheist, or someone who remains uncertain about the role of religion in our lives, this insightful manifesto will engage you with its provocative ideas.

With a close and studied reading of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens 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. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.

In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion.

Reviews

  • Changed my life

    5
    By Boricua0383
    Rereading it now in 2024 in e-book format but read it for the first time when it came out in 2007 (I think) and I lost my paperback edition. I was 25 in 2007 and up to that point spent my entire life in a protestant church and was preparing to eventually become a pastor. I fell into a “crisis of faith” during that time mostly because I was starting to get fed up with the authoritarian and totalitarian nature of the church. As a young adult I wanted to take my life in another direction but the pastor and other church leaders had this attitude of “if you don’t do what I say God will punish you and you will live a miserable life”. Started to notice that God is used to manipulate people to serve the church leaders and that it was probably man made. Got the book after watching a couple of Hitchens’ YouTube videos. This is the book that helped me de-convert and be free from the tyranny of organized religion. Maybe there is a God out there but you won’t find him in organized religion. Church is a scam. A shame that Hitch is no longer with us.
  • Will read this book!

    1
    By metal critic
    Listen I’m a Christian based on my own research and not on “blind faith”. ( that means I read books other than the Bible for evidence!) However since you guys are really avid about me reading this and giving as much unbiase as possible. However, I dont think a man that worships himself as well as other atheists should be bashing religion and questioning all of morality. But that’s just my opinion.
  • heresy

    1
    By GMhikaru
    u are a heretic and pagan 😐
  • Thought provoking

    5
    By Hootervil1
    “God is not Great” is thought provoking and erudite, rich with humor and insight, and beautifully written with a very light touch. Reading Hitchens will make a better person out of you.
  • this book makes me sad

    1
    By Tam4Eva
    i am fourteen years and have been a christian since i was nine years old. my faith and view of the world has only been growing since then. when i heard about this book, it made me sad, because it’s wrong. it’s so wrong! what really gets me is, how can anyone look at the world we live in, look at how complex the human body is, and think that there isn’t a good creator?
  • Superb and incisive.

    5
    By BCH@Hastings
    I bought this book in physical and electronic formats. The brutally deft edge with which Hitchens cleaves faith from any semblance of logic is more of a standard and a necessity every day. At least in The United States. We’re not all lunatics.
  • Great Book.

    5
    By Texas Jew.
    Haters will always hate, This book is a must from the mind of a great man who is deeply missed.
  • A fantastic read!

    5
    By VIRBGD
    Don’t be turned off by the title. This book is factual and comprehensive -it should be required reading for every young adult, hopefully before they become indoctrinated into one way of thinking.
  • To: #68

    5
    By Jdo4456
    You had to read the title 3 times to become interested? Wow that mustve taken a long time, huh. Listen kids, i was once a christian too, but the fact remains that christianity is a sick hybrid of Judaism and ancient mythology. Just think, Paul the apostle was upset by the Jews for their disbelief. They had the right to not believe. If jesus really was the son of god he would have appeared to everyone not just 10 people or so. Thomas did not believe and supposedly had to see for himself. What happened? he saw jesus and touched him (in the fantastic story) and his doubts were pleased. You cannot expect anyone to believe something just because you think its the inspired word of god. ive been around it my whole life and i see nothing special about it. the old testament is from jewish poets and moses and perhaps prophets. the new testament is shady eyewitness accounts and letters not intended for us. all were voted upon to decide which were "divinely inspired" This religion is going to die and ill be glad to see it go
  • Wonderfully inspiring!

    5
    By chefreiner
    The best book I have read in a long time. Christopher Hitchens was an extremely well spoken and intelligent debater- and an even better writer. True to himself to the very end. He is dearly missed in the atheist - and freethinker community. I am hooked and cannot wait to read all o his publications. Inspirational!