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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Hardcover – May 1, 2007

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  • Hardcover: 307 pages
  • Publisher: Twelve Books; 1st edition (May 1, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0446579807
  • ISBN-13: 978-0446579803
  • Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2,027 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsFrom someone who's actually read the book!
By Scott Bresinger on May 14, 2007
Format: Hardcover
After looking through some of the other customer reviews found here, I was dismayed by the amount of "blog-style" entries: that is, people who may have only glanced at the title or saw Hitchens promoting the book on CNN or YouTube and decided to just speak up, either in support or condemnation. However, if you're curious about the book and just want to know what to expect, may I humbly offer some actual information?

Hitchens, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, author of books too numerous to mention and contributor to smaller magazines such as Free Inquiry, adds to the recent renaissance of pro-atheist books with his own provocatively-titled contribution. Whereas Sam Harris (The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason) sees dire warnings and Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion offers a defense of science, Hitchens uses his long experience in journalism to illustrate the madness that results when faith is unchallenged by reason. Dawkins has been criticized for adopting a harsh tone (an assessment I disagree with), but Hitchens is the one who really pours on the anger and witty derision.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAnd thus he spake...
By Righthalf on August 5, 2007
Format: Hardcover
My favorite part of the book is the last third. By that time Hitchens has made his arguments about how Religion Poisons Everything and is now rebutting the best intellectual arguments against his thesis. What would become of human decency, morality and ethics without religion? How do you address the inherent human need to believe in something and take comfort in a higher power? What are the god-less alternatives and aren't those institutions as bad or worse? Doesn't religion provide stability to society by pacifying individuals in times of darkness and uncertainty? It is hard to sum things up and provide sound bytes about something as complex as religion, but my take-away from this book is that any religion (by design) has the ingredients of becoming totalitarian, when successful; and totalitarianism of any kind leads to ultimate power corruption.

Hitchens makes his arguments and rebuts the best counter-arguments with passion and panache. If you are amongst the majority of people in the world - believers - his irreverent sense of humor may lead you to immediately brush him off as a partisan hack; while the unbelievers will get a kick out of each of the thousands of punchlines that Hitchens artfully mumbles. However, if you belong to the third category - an intellectual who chooses to look beyond a bi-polar view of the world when it comes to religion - I would urge patience with Hitchens' indulgence as a genius linguist (when you have it, it is hard not to flaunt it!) and you will find this book extremely rewarding and will not go un-satiated. If you are seriously debating the merits and demerits of religion as an institution in the society we live in, you have glanced at the perfect place, no matter what your affiliations.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsOne-star reviews
By Anoname on August 14, 2007
Format: Hardcover
When I came to read the reviews (out of curiosity) on Amazon, I first went on to read the one-star reviews. I was amused that many have clearly not read the book, but felt that their defense and protection of the faith was necessary. Many voice their maliciously gleeful prophecies of Hitchens ending up in hell alternating with those who in their gracious piety wish him "saved" from this otherwise inevitable fate. Others go into long nervously complex and defensive discourses to draw "aha! now I can rest easy" conclusions as to why Hitchens was all wrong about their specific brand of faith. A stark parallel to how religious texts are designed to make things convoluted and abstruse with riddles within riddles and side-winds for every long-wind with the end result to successfully befuddle and consequently beguile the masses.

I do not see this book as a detailed thesis and nor did I expect Hitchens (nor do I think this is possible) to be an expert on each tedious detail relating to every religion. I find this quite irrelevent to the intent of the discourse in the book. Further, I do not see this as some juvenile battle between the virtues of all believers versus all non-believers. I must add that one big difference between how religion (as opposed to a lack thereof) manages to impact the lives of all is it's need and very mission to impose, interfere, and establish.

I see this as a book as something that improves our perspective and understanding of an age-old subject that has a huge bearing on all our lives. It makes us observe and be mindful of our primitive brains, impulses, and tendencies. It forces us to sit back and think of the absurdity in so many of the decisions and interactions we take for granted all around us.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat product. Arrived as promised

Great product. Arrived as promised.

Published 1 day ago by W. O'CONNOR
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Hitchens at his best <3

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5.0 out of 5 starsThis is prose at its best!

One the best authors I've ever had the pleasure of reading.

Published 10 days ago by Ben of SoCal
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Outstanding insight.

Published 17 days ago by Scott Nenninger
5.0 out of 5 starsHighly recomended

It's a well documented book and easy to read

Published 24 days ago by María Guadalupe Montaño
5.0 out of 5 starsGood book

Good book if you need to make some points why religion is bad *only*.

Published 25 days ago by Patrick Kormann
1.0 out of 5 starsThis was a waste of time and money

I don't mind an honest discussion about religion, but this was way off the deep end. It read like a textbook. Not the book for me.

Published 26 days ago by Sal
3.0 out of 5 starsThree Stars

Good, not great.

Published 27 days ago by Michael Golding
5.0 out of 5 starsBrilliantly written. Funny, insightful and not for the faint of...

Genius many times over.

Published 28 days ago by JMT
5.0 out of 5 starsI found Mr Hitchens' book to be quite thought provoking ...

I found Mr Hitchens' book to be quite thought provoking. I was raised with a fundamentalist religion and the author breaks down many different religions and false belief systems. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Matthew Dansereau

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