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More often than not, it has been the godfearers who have stifled knowledge and persecuted those seeking wisdom and instruction. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a manmade wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. The gloves come off in this electric exchange, originally hosted by christianity today, as leading atheist christopher hitchens author of god is not great and christian apologist douglas wilson author of letter from a christian citizen go headtohead on this divisive question. Download now in god is not great hitchens turned his formidable eloquence and rhetorical energy to the most controversial issue in the world. The authors have created a sort of antibook of virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power. The death of christopher hitchens, the desiring god board meeting thursday, and the word of god. Christopher hitchens 19492011 was an englishborn american author, journalist and literary critic. Everyone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to greene, a screenwriter and former editor at esquire elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia. I have often wondered about christopher hitchens position in favor of the iraq war, especially considering the subject of his new book and his admitted atheism, when you consider that the idea of preemptive war came about, in large part, as an invention from ancient religious minds. To serve as umpire and referee, i have asked jacob weisberg, the editor of slate, the free online daily magazine offering analysis and commentary about politics, news, and culture, to welcome on the stage christopher hitchens and al. God is not great sometimes stylized as god is not great is a 2007 book by britishamerican author and journalist christopher hitchens, in which he makes a case against organized religion.
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