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God is not great marvels at the possibility of society without religion, arguing instead that the concept of an omniscient god has profoundly damaged humanity. Dec 04, 2017 ulrich lehners book, god is not nice, is a must read for everyone today interested in how we have exchanged the god of the bible for a counterfeit. There were clips of beautiful piano music in the beginning of each cd and of each chapter. God is not great christopher hitchens audio book p1. God is not great 9780446697965 christopher hitchens. The case against religion and in the united states by twelve as god is not great. God is not great sometimes stylized as god is not great is a 2007 book by angloamerican author and journalist christopher hitchens, in which he makes a case against organized religion. Atheism, scepticism, rambles, doubt, secularism, and archive robertxlester moved to robertwlester 540,417 views. From the opening page he showed his approach with the example of the otherwise apparently admirable christian lady mrs jean watts, who played a pleasant part in hitchens childhood until she overstepped the mark and suggested that god. Although the social penalties for atheism are much less in contemporary democratic societies than in other societies, past and present, there is also. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a manmade wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos.
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