God is Not Great

In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I am not a Christian, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acurate readings of the major religious texts, he demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made, dangerously sexually repressive and distorts the origins of the cosmos. With robust clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, 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 symmetry of the double helix. God is not Great marvels at the possibility of society without religion.