God Is Not Great

So following on from my earlier post I thought it might be useful to share with you some of the chapters from Christopher Hitchens book and my distillation of their key arguments. That way you can hopefully get a feel if the book interests you!

1) Putting it Mildly

2) Religion Kills

3) A Short Digression on the Pig; or, Why Heaven Hates Ham

4) A Note on Health to Which Religion Can Be Hazardous

5) The Metaphysical Claims of Religion Are False

6) Arguments from Design

7) Revelation: The Nightmare of the Old Testament

8) The New Testament Exceeds the Evil of the "Old" One

9) The Koran Is Borrowed from Both Jewish and Christian Myths

10) The Tawdriness of the Miraculous and the Decline of Hell

11) "The Lowly Stanp of Their Origin" Religion's Corrupt Beginnings

12) A Coda: How Religions End

13) Does Religion Make People Behave Better?

14) There Is No Eastern Solution

15) Religion as an Original Sin

16) Is Religion Child Abuse?

17) An Objection Anticipated - The Last-Ditch Case Against Secularism

18) A Finer Tradition - The Resistance of the Rational

19) In Conclusion: The Need for a New Enlightenment