Hitchens makes a compelling case against the major world religions and claims of religion being ‘essentially a force for good.’ His essays are presented with his characteristic wit, erudition and bravado (in the positive sense of defiance and courage). Unafraid to name names, point fingers, and cha...
With a middle of the road rating I think it's fair to say this book is not great. Not bad but not great.While I felt that Hitchens' tone was polite the chapters did seem to repeat themselves. Where the book shone was with specific examples of religions not getting it right. The specifics in the h...
I intended to read this book back-to-back with Richard Dawkins’ God Delusion and Sam Harris’ End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. But I had to wait about a year for the library audio version of "God Is Not Great" because of a long queue. Thus, my comparison of the books is not as fresh a...
Christopher Hitchens makes many good points about why belief in God doesn't make sense anymore, and many excellent points about the evils of religion and how it's held us back. He writes with erudition and wit, and at times, is a pleasant person to visit with. I'm inclined to agree with much of what...
Angry, but doesn't break much new ground. Religion? Bad. Check. No argument from me on that point, though some of Hitchens' examples made me furious all over again. Well-written preaching, in my case, to the choir.
Like Dawkins in The God Delusion, Hitchens is excellent at revelaing the idocies and hypocrisies of organized religion, but falls short of convincingly arguing against the existence of God. Again, it's about faith. You either believe or you don't. Faith is not rational.
There's a debate I keep getting into about the difference between atheism and religious belief: someone claims that atheism is just another faith, and I disagree. This seems like a good place to summarize my objections.I would first like to draw a clear distinction between dogmatic and sceptical ath...
Great atheist manifesto! My review will be added in the future after I have re-read it again. Edit Sept. 7th 2011:This book is a real eye-opener and puts religion in a different perspective, and it's not a rosy perspective that he comes with. One of the many things that I like about this book is tha...
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