God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

HITCHENS, Christopher.

Item Number: 98548

New York: Twelve/ Hatchette Book Group, 2007.

First edition of this polemic by Hitchens. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the author on the title page as follows, “For a faint-hearted agnostic “just say no” Christopher Hitchens.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anne Twomey. A nice inscription.

In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.