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God Is Not Great (sometimes stylized as god is not Great) 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 and in the United States by Twelve as God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, but was republished ...
The term Abrahamic religions (and its variations) is a collective religious descriptor for elements shared by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. [ 9] It features prominently in interfaith dialogue and political discourse, but also has entered Academic discourse. [ 10][ 11] However, the term has also been criticized to be uncritically adapted.
Hitchens's razor. Hitchens's razor is an epistemological razor that serves as a general rule for rejecting certain knowledge claims. It states " what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence ". [ 1][ 2][ 3] The razor was created by and later named after author and journalist Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011).
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 ...
Hitchens was a strong critic of religion and a proponent of atheism. The book "traces Hitchens spiritual and intellectual development" and includes claims that Hitchens flirted with Christianity after his diagnosis with terminal cancer and stared "into the depths of eternity, teetering on the edge of belief" and "was wading into Christian ...
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.
Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British and American author, journalist, and educator. [2] [3] Author of 18 books on faith, culture, politics and literature, he was born and educated in Britain, graduating in the 1970s from Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
The most prominent Abrahamic religions are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. [3] They, alongside Samaritanism, Mandaeism, Druzism, the Baháʼí Faith, [3] and Rastafari, [3] all share a common core foundation in the form of worshipping Abraham's God, who is identified as Yahweh in Hebrew and called Allah in Arabic. [7]