Hitchens Is Not Great By Karl Reitz

"Religion has been under more fire than usual lately. Daniel Dennett wrote 'Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon', Sam Harris wrote 'The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason', Richard Dawkins wrote 'The God Delusion', and Christopher Hitchens wrote 'God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything', to name just a few attacks.

Most reviews of these books and interviews with the authors have raised the not-so-hot record of atheistic societies. The authors, of course, promptly dismiss these concerns. As The Economist review of Mr. Hitchens 'God is not Great' puts it:

'To the objection that irreligious fascists and communists found plenty of non-religious reasons for murder in the 20th century, Mr Hitchens retorts that these beliefs were types of secularised religion, and as such do not count.'

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