God Is Not Great
How Religion Poisons Everything

It seems to me that the author actually directed this book toward the religious in hopes that they might take from it a realization that their path in life is a farce. Quite sure from past experience that this is not going to be the case, it is quite likely a book that will be far more of interest to the argumentative atheist which I am. Covering a broad spectrum of religions, belief structures, origins, similarities, and contradictions, the author did a excellent job of showing the ridiculous tendencies of various religions. Focus is primarily on various sects of Christianity and Islam but there are numerous mentions of some of the other prominent players in the game such as Mormons, Jews, Hindus, etc. I cannot contemplate any way a reasonable person could argue with most of the points made in the book. The writer is knowledgeable, clear, and concise, getting to the point and explaining it clearly. If you have any interest in the constant debate over the usefulness of religion or have questions about your belief, I highly recommend this book.

Much of this book seemed like it was much older than it really was. As an agnostic he just comes off as a party pooper since much of life is just a pleasant fiction to avoid our own thoughts of mortality. I dont normally write reviews. I was motivated because he said very clearly in the book that John Adams was a slave owner and that upset me because most of our founding fathers were not Christians so he makes the link to Adams' Christianity as being duplicitous of course since he was a slave owner. Convienant for the author but completly wrong in its ***eration. It made me mad because its so easy to say relegion ***** you don't have to fudge the facts to do it. So it kinda made me feel like he was over zealous to the point of relegiousness in his atheism.

There's a debate I keep getting into about the difference between atheism and religious belief: someone claims that atheism is just another faith, and I disagree. This seems like a good place to summarize my objections. I would first like to draw a clear distinction between dogmatic and sceptical ath......more

A wicked, witty condemnation of all things religious. As a person of faith, I find that Hitchens often sounds like a blind man ridiculing the value of Rembrandt and Van Gogh. But he is particularly fine on the noxious ways in which religion intersects with the most murderous forms of politics. And o......more

As a fellow Atheist, Mr. Hitchens is preaching to choir, so to speak, in this informative, captivating work in which Hitchens judiciously provides historically documented and personal examples of what he sees as an ever-increasing war being waged by a variety of religious fundamental organizations.......more

Since I can't say anything with out being labelled as a 'heretic' or a 'heathen', I will just say this; Not everything, but it does poison a lot of things. And its first victims are Reason and Common sense.......more

Having read the book some time before the author died and having written a review but not on this site I'm at a loss to comprehend now what went wrong with this book. I had a more lenient rating system at the time I read this book. Now I'd have given this book a 2/5 - which I just have. There is too......more