Hitchens, Christopher. <br/><br/>
God is not great :  how religion poisons everything / 
Christopher Hitchens. 
 - 1st trade ed. 
 - New York :  Twelve Hachette Book Group,  2009. 
 - 320 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Putting it mildly -- Religion kills -- A short digression on the pig, or, Why Heaven hates ham -- A note on health, to which religion can be hazardous -- The metaphysical claims of religion are false -- Arguments from design -- Revelation : the nightmare of the Old Testament -- The New Testament exceeds the evil of the Old one -- The Koran is borrowed from both Jewish and Christian myths -- The tawdriness of the miraculous and the decline of Hell -- "The lowly stamp of their origin" : religion's corrupt beginnings -- A coda : how religions end -- Does religion make people behave better? -- There is no "Eastern" solution -- Religion as an original sin -- Is religion child abuse? -- An objection anticipated : the last-ditch "case" against secularism -- A finer tradition : the resistance of the rational -- In conclusion : the need for a new Enlightenment. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0446697966 :  $14.99 9780446697965 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>God.<br/>Religion.<br/>Religion and politics.<br/>Religion and civilization.<br/>Religion and state.<br/>Religion and social problems.<br/>Dios
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL 2775.3  / H674g 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>200