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In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which the heavens are 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.
"Hitchens adopts a calm, mannered reading style - as if intent on exuding rationality and reason and avoiding the unabashed zeal of the religious fanatics he is so scathing about.But Hitchens' fury radiates through his words. For him, all religion is violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry. This discrepancy between narration style and content creates a peculiar tension. A fascinating listen."
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