God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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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.

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4.2
432 reviews
Caleb
September 5, 2025
Everyone who stats that this book is accurate/ enlightening is naive to the truth about God. Granted, there have been periods of turmoil within the Church, we cannot judge the entirety of something by a few bad instances (the Puritans, the Crusades). We can't say that every Islamic person is evil because of 911. We are like children; our father is doing the best things for use, even if we don't like it. (Eat your vegetables) "suffering builds character" - Calvin's dad. (Calvin and Hobbes).
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Cmatt
July 30, 2025
This book is a moral man's response to the sick and perverted false Christianity that has recently dominated society, especially in modern America, but also in the U. K. and across the world. Let us all remember that it was "the people of God" that killed Jesus. It's remarkable how many "Christians" would waste their breath, claiming to believe in God while blaspheming him to his face by refusing to live like Christ. Also read "The Rage Against God" by his Christian brother, Peter Hitchens.
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Dawn Ray
March 20, 2026
finally a unafraid take down of organized religion. He says most religious laws aren't even suggested by the religion in question. But by clergy needing to control. Almost all wars were fought because of religious differences. really enjoyed intelligent arguments, facts, and straight science. Smart.
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About the author

Christopher Hitchens was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair,Slate, and the Atlantic, and the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and George Orwell. He also wrote the international bestsellers god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Hitch-22: A Memoir, and Arguably. He died in December 2011.

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