01767cam a2200265 4500 2357459203 TxAuBib 20070604120000.0 060713s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006023039 9780446579803 0446579807 (OCoLC)297206911 TxAuBib Hitchens, Christopher. God is not great [BOOK] : how religion poisons everything / Christopher Hitchens. 1st ed. New York : Twelve, 2007. 307 p. ; 24 cm. 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. "A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher. 20151005. Religion Controversial literature.