A very personal criminal history of religion

A very personal criminal history of religion

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)

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Christopher Hitchens book is not very systematic and includes hardly really new arguments for belief in God and religion. But it has a great advantage: The author writes his compressed criminal history of religions is not primarily based on historical sources, but also from personal experience. Hitchens has the one experienced by personal partnerships several religions of the Interior and has traveled far to the other by his long-time work as a journalist and has been confronted in the most diverse corners of the world with the deformations and agony that the people do the religions. He presented this material very readable and engaging, but without rancor. It may be objected that this is all very one-sided and it was necessary but also represent the virtues and merits of the religions. On top of that could also secular promises of salvation slipping into totalitarian horror. Now, in a historical situation in which the persistence and even revival of religious ideas and fanaticism threatens the humanitarian progress, you can not blame it Hitchens that he leaves it to the followers of religions, to extol their social benefits. If these services are desirable, they can also be reached on a secular background and possibly bound by certain historical developments on religiously defined institutions. The illusion that institutionalized religions might lead the people to be morally better behavior and secular totalitarian ideologies oppose consistent resistance, Hitchens devotes an entire chapter. Here he gives a lecture the history of the moral failure of the religion of Nazism until tribalistisch motivated genocide in Rwanda. Hitchens book is a useful and necessary complement to the religion-critical trilogy of Dawkins, Dennett and Harris.

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