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In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate caseagainst religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he 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 andreason, 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 symmetryof the double helix.
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1 online resource.
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1668 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 308 KB) or OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB).
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9780446590846
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| Author Notes: |
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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