God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything is a 2007 book by British-American author and critic Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens, a vocal atheist, argues that religion is harmful and detrimental to human well-being and society. The book presents a critique of religious doctrines, institutions, and practices, asserting that they have historically caused conflict, oppression, and suffering. Hitchens contends that religious faith is not only unnecessary but also actively damaging, hindering critical thinking and moral progress. The work became a significant text for the atheist movement, with Hitchens being part of a group of prominent atheists dubbed "the Four Horsemen of the Counter-Apocalypse".12

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With God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007) Hitchens issued a rallying cry to the atheist movement; he dubbed the quartet formed by him and fellow atheists Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel C. Dennett “the Four Horsemen of the Counter-Apocalypse.”
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With God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007) Hitchens issued a rallying cry to the atheist movement; he dubbed the quartet formed by him and fellow atheists Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel C. Dennett “the Four Horsemen of the Counter-Apocalypse.”
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