so, what did you think?
2007-08-24 20:13:43 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
didn't read it, but god doesn't exist, so sounds good to me
2007-08-24 20:16:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Have you read the book, "Christopher Hitchens is Not Great" by Almighty God? It's better known as the Bible!
Check it out. Its the all-time best seller year after year after year after year!
2007-08-25 03:19:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I highly recommend it. It is very thorough and addresses just about every possible argument for the existence of a God.
In typical Hitchens style, it goes beyond this to argue that belief is an evil thing as well as a false thing. He is a good historian and did his research, and reveals the relationships between so-called "secular" regimes (Nazi Germany, Stalin) and the major established churches in those nations--these regimes were not as secular as they may first appear and his points take a lot of hot air out of the arguments that atheists produce just as many evil regimes as religious extremists do.
He also jars you awake by just appealing regularly to common sense. At the beginning of one chapter, he asks the reader to imagine that they walk into the room and see him holding a child's genitals in his mouth--how shocked you would be. Then he reminds you that Orthodox Jewish Rabbis still end ritual circumcisions this way to remove the foreskin (sorry to be graphic). Only religious indoctrination can make us accept what our natural, humanist instincts tell us is wrong (genital mutilation, molestation).
He also goes into how many of the world's problems can be wholly blamed on religion. Reasonable people who all thought of Jerusalem as their homeland, for example, would find a way to share it. But different groups who each believe their position is "sacred" and unnassailable don't feel any need to compromise and are happy to shed blood rather than just live and let live in the same neighborhood (does it HAVE to be so hard?).
He reminds us how blindly we accept what we were taught as children. Our innate morality is more than sufficient to ensure a peaceful world if we are all able to act reasonably. And religion tragically requires us to sacrifice our reason...that wonderful thing that separates us from every other creature.
2007-08-25 03:34:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anise 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I haven't read it nor would I wast my time on anything
that would try lead our children away from the teaching of
the church or there parents. Some think Its fine to sabotage
the teaching of or youth. For what purpose I'm not sure. I
wonder what BOOK they got that out of. Well thats what I
think.
2007-08-25 06:01:43 · answer #4 · answered by wayne g 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitchens book is not great.
2007-08-25 05:35:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Seems readable.. but hate and disbelief and public display of it isn't my thing, I won't lie and say I'm not against anything.. but why would you want to make a public display of it? People who know already know and people who aren't won't listen.
:D
2007-08-25 03:18:21 · answer #6 · answered by Google! 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry, I haven't read it and I don't want to read it either. I believe god is there.
2007-08-25 03:18:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but thanks for the tip .
2007-08-25 05:01:46 · answer #8 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋