TY - BOOK AU - Hitchens,Christopher TI - God is not great: how religion poisons everything / SN - 9780446579803 AV - BL 2775.3 H58.2007 PY - 2007/// CY - New York, N.Y. : PB - Twelve Hachette Book Group, KW - Religion KW - Controversial literature KW - Religión KW - Obras polémicas KW - Rationalism KW - Racionalismo N1 - Ejemplar con sobrecubierta; Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 287-294) e índice; Putting it mildly -- Religion kills -- A short digression on the pig, or, Why Heaven hates ham -- A note on health, to which religion can be hazardous -- The metaphysical claims of religion are false -- Arguments from design -- Revelation : the nightmare of the Old Testament -- The New Testament exceeds the evil of the Old one -- The Koran is borrowed from both Jewish and Christian myths -- The tawdriness of the miraculous and the decline of Hell -- "The lowly stamp of their origin" : religion's corrupt beginnings -- A coda : how religions end -- Does religion make people behave better? -- There is no "Eastern" solution -- Religion as an original sin -- Is religion child abuse? -- An objection anticipated : the last-ditch "case" against secularism -- A finer tradition : the resistance of the rational -- In conclusion : the need for a new Enlightenment; Abierta a los investigadores bajo las restricciones de la biblioteca N2 - "A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher ER -