God Is Not Great

How Religion Poisons Everything

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens

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.

Critic reviews

"[An] impressive and enjoyable attack on everything so many people hold dear... Hitchens has outfoxed the Hitchens watchers by writing a serious and deeply felt book, totally consistent with his beliefs of a lifetime. And God should be flattered: unlike most of those clamoring for his attention, Hitchens treats him like an adult."—New York Times Book Review

"[Hitchens] has somehow turned out an atheist book that, whatever one's stance on divine providence, is thoroughly enjoyable...in its profane interrogation of the sacred, [it] achieves a kind of joyous impudence...His narrative leans briskly and unrelentingly forward, subverting an unsettling all kinds of complacencies, religious and otherwise."—Joseph Rago, Wall Street Journal

Brilliant

I love this book. It's brilliant, to the point, honest and it's about time somebody pointed out the obvious paradoxes and crimes that derive from religion. Please file the bible under 'fiction'.

Read it, if you dare!

If you are religious, this book can change your life forever. It should be required reading in school. So much suffering under religious edicts that can be spared if more people put "god" in its right place, at the trash heap of history.

Devastating to religions oldest bastion, morality comes from God

Blow after devastating blow against the common religious idea that God is great and that belief in him leads people to greater moral lives. Using his keen wit, fantastic command of the English language and thorough research of history Hitchens is a joy to listen too, especially since we are no longer graced by the benefit of further oratory from him.

God or no Good ?

Everyone should check out this book, believers and non believers alike. It makes you think.

Eye-opening

I enjoyed this book and was sad that it was over after so many hours of accompanying me on my walks and cross-country skiing. I had heard some of the arguments before, but to hear them all together and with science and stories to back them, it becomes very engaging. His voice is very easy to listen to and very soothing. He speaks too quickly the odd time, in areas that I am sure he thinks are not as important. Watched him on Charlie Rose just last night and found him to be very honest and forthright. He is known for taking the opposing position on a lot of common topics, but when he explains, you see that he is not doing it for publicity (or purely for), but provides very compelling and evocative counter views. He has cancer of the esophagus and I wish him well. His cancer has changed the way he looks at things, so I look forward to his next book. Everyone, religious or otherwise, should listen to his discussion in this book.