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Dewey Decimal. 200 22. LC Class. BL2775.3 .H58 2007. God Is Not Great (sometimes stylized as god is not Great) [1] is a 2007 book by author and journalist Christopher Hitchens in which he makes a case against organized religion. It was originally published in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Books as God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion ...
The dictum appears in Hitchens's 2007 book titled God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. [3] [4] The term "Hitchens's razor" itself first appeared (as "Hitchens' Razor") in an online forum in October, 2007, and was used by atheist blogger Rixaeton in December 2010, and popularised by, among others, evolutionary biologist and atheist activist Jerry Coyne after Hitchens died in ...
Criticism of religion involves criticism of the validity, concept, or ideas of religion. [ 1 ] Historical records of criticism of religion go back to at least 5th century BCE in ancient Greece, in Athens specifically, with Diagoras "the Atheist" of Melos. In ancient Rome, an early known example is Lucretius ' De rerum natura from the 1st ...
From the 14th-century Triunfo de Santo Tomás by Andrea da Firenze (di Bonaiuto). The omnipotence paradox is a family of paradoxes that arise with some understandings of the term omnipotent. The paradox arises, for example, if one assumes that an omnipotent being has no limits and is capable of realizing any outcome, even a logically ...
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (2007) is an anthology of atheist and agnostic thought edited by Christopher Hitchens.. Going back to the early Greeks, Hitchens introduces selected essays of past and present philosophers, scientists, and other thinkers such as Lucretius, Benedict de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell ...
The Catholic Church believes that hell is the free and continual rejection of God's forgiveness of sins. [17] Doctrine states that this rejection takes the form of the committing of a sin without repentance. [18] Notably, however, those who die only in original sin are not predestined to hell [19] since God is not bound by baptism. [20]
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The War We Never Fought. The Rage Against God (subtitle in US editions: How Atheism Led Me to Faith) is the fifth book by Peter Hitchens, first published in 2010. The book describes Hitchens's journey from atheism, far-left politics, and bohemianism to Christianity and conservatism, detailing the influences on him that led to his conversion.