'God is Not Great' byChristopherHitchensarrives May 1st!

http://richarddawkins.net/article,907,n,n

From Booklist
"*Starred Review* God is getting bad press lately. Sam Harris' The End
of Faith(2005) and Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion (2006) have
questioned the existence of any spiritual being and met with enormous
success. Now, noted, often acerbic journalistHitchensenters the
fray. As his subtitle indicates, his premise is simple. Not only does
religion poison everything, which he argues by explaining several ways
in which religion is immoral, but the world would be better off
without religion. Replace religious faith with inquiry,
open-mindedness, and the pursuit of ideas, he exhorts. Closely reading
major religious texts,Hitchenspoints to numerous examples of
atrocities and mayhem in them. Religious faith, he asserts, is both
result and cause of dangerous sexual repression. What's more, it is
grounded in nothing more than wish fulfillment. Hence, he believes
that religion is man-made, and an ethical life can be lived without
its stamp of approval. With such chapter titles as "Religion Kills"
and "Is Religion Child Abuse?"Hitchensintends to provoke, but he is
not mean-spirited and humorless. Indeed, he is effortlessly witty and
entertaining as well as utterly rational. Believers will be disturbed
and may even charge him with blasphemy (he questions not only the
virgin birth but the very existence of Jesus), and he may not change
many minds, but he offers the open-minded plenty to think about. June
Sawyers"

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