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100 1 _aHitchens, Christopher.
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245 1 0 _aGod is not great :
_bhow religion poisons everything
_cChristopher Hitchens.
250 _a1st trade ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bTwelve,
_c2009.
300 _a320 p. ;
_c21 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPutting 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.
650 0 _aReligion
_vControversial literature.
_924117
650 0 _aRationalism.
_924118
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