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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Christopher Hitchens

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 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.

ReligionReligion · high confidenceReligion81 signalsLlm Classifier: Religion -> ReligionOpen Library: Religion and state -> ReligionOpen Library: Religion and civilization -> ReligionReligion & Religious MovementsEvangelicalism & Christian NationalismIntellectual History & Ideas

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for NonfictionMajor2007FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Bertrand Russell38%
    • Sam Harris35%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Religion is man-made and produces harmful effects, including dangerous repression and distortions of human understanding, so a more secular life grounded in science and reason is preferable.

    Model confidence 66%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 72%.