Review of 'God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This is the first I've read from Christopher Hitchens, a stunning intellectual and anti-theist (see the title). The gist of this book is that religion is basically totalitarianism, and between those two you can fix the blame for 99% of the evil in the world - even up to the present day. Between the Islamic exhortations to violence and the Fundamentalist opposition of science, I can certainly see his point. When people do good things is not generally at the behest of religion but instead humanism at work - another fair point. Definitely worth the time to read.