A Review of Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great – Summary

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The following is an outline of my review of Christopher Hitchens’, “God is not Great” Part I – Chapter One The definition of Atheism. Do “the faithful” commit more crimes? Are atheist dogmatic? Part II – Chapter One the “four irreducible objections to religious faith.”  Religion and sex Part III – Chapter One. Do believers […]

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Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXXII

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Listen to the MP3 In my extended review of Christopher Hitchens book “God Is Not Great,” I have finally reached the last chapter, “In Conclusion: The Need for a New Enlightenment.”  Hitchens opens the chapter with a discussion of a quote by Lessing, where he says that given the opportunity to know all truth, he […]

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Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXXI

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Listen to the MP3 In  my extended review of  Christopher Hitchens book “God Is Not Great,” I have come to chapter 18, A Finer Tradition: The Resistance of the Rational.  The chapter struck me as a very strange chapter, for it left me with the feeling that Hitchens lives in somewhat of a fantasy world, […]

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Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXX

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Listen to the MP3 I am continuing in my extended review of  Christopher Hitchens book “God Is Not Great,” and his defense of atheism in chapter 17.  Last time, I looked at how Hitchens deftly attempted to shift the blame for the secular evils of the twentieth century onto religion effectively arguing that Christians are […]

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Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXIX

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Listen to the MP3 I am continuing in my extended review of  Christopher Hitchens book “God Is Not Great,” and his defense of atheism in chapter 17.  As I pointed out last time, given how he has attempted to attack religion in the first sixteen chapters, this is pretty much a no win situation for […]

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