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007			Hard bound
008			060713s2007 nyu b 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aBL2775.3 _b.H58 2007
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100	1		_aHitchens, Christopher _911117
245	1	0	_aGod is not great _bhow religion poisons everything
260			_aNew York _bTwelve _c2007
300			_a307p. _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.
505	0		_aPutting it mildly -- Religion kills -- A short digression on the pig, or, Why Heaven hates ham -- A note on health, to which religion can be hazardous -- The metaphysical claims of religion are false -- Arguments from design -- Revelation : the nightmare of the Old Testament -- The New Testament exceeds the evil of the Old one -- The Koran is borrowed from both Jewish and Christian myths -- The tawdriness of the miraculous and the decline of Hell -- "The lowly stamp of their origin" : religion's corrupt beginnings -- A coda : how religions end -- Does religion make people behave better? -- There is no "Eastern" solution -- Religion as an original sin -- Is religion child abuse? -- An objection anticipated : the last-ditch "case" against secularism -- A finer tradition : the resistance of the rational -- In conclusion : the need for a new Enlightenment.
520			_a"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.
650		0	_aReligion _vControversial literature. _933515
650		0	_aRationalism. _92613
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