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Rating: - Should be on the school syllabus for RE studies...
This book deserves to be read! It is the most inspiring and informative book I've read in a while.

Hitchens has a very well informed point of view. The book should be required reading for all 16+ students of RE, if only to counter-balance the apologist drivel which is (at best) what's usually pushed on our children. (If you're reading this from the US then your kids are probably being pushed much worse, and this book should be even more important as a balancer.)

The book ... Read More

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Rating: - Simply Briliiant
Finally, a perfectly pitched book of truths about religion. A most nourishing elixir for those who have been coerced for far too long into respecting all manner of religious bunkum.

The time has come for the atheist voice to be heard and not least in the frame of fundamental Islam. For too long in Britain we have been cowed by the maniacal delusions of the muslim right wing and I for one am sick and tired of it. This book is the true medicinal antithesis to the snake oil of such puerile ... Read More

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Rating: - All too human...
I make one simple point: does religion per se create evil,
or does humanity create evil in its name? The point has been
made over and over again that any great system of thought
creates zealots who are prepared to kill in its name. Humans
like and crave for certainty, and they cannot tolerate having
their certainty challenged. It is simply a non sequitur for
authors like Hitchens constantly to bang on about the evil done
in religions' names. When will people ... Read More

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Rating: - God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
Perhaps a danger with these 'Down with God' books is in assuming that God and Religion are related. It is possible to have a bad experience of religion, which is a man made thing. But if a person denies the very existence of God in the first place. How can a person who denies the existence of something write about something that they consider does not exist? Mmmm

In doing this are they not then giving body to something that they previously considered didn't exist - so that they are now writing ... Read More

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Rating: - Thinking book
This book does make you think in two sense of that phrase: it makes you consider the big questions in life and it also makes you concnetrate hard to understand it in places.

I liked the book when considering it in the round. It think that Hitchens is clearly a very clever individual, well-read and who has considered his subject-matter in some detail and is very familiar with it. But this is part of the downside to the book in that, for someone like me, who is not a philosopher and who does not ... Read More

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