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Atheism, scepticism, rambles, doubt, secularism, and archive robertxlester moved to robertwlester 119,159 views. Criticism of religion involves criticism of the validity, concept, or ideas of religion historical records of criticism of religion go back to at least 5th century bce in ancient greece, with diagoras the atheist of melos. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a manmade wish. How religion poisons everything by christopher hitchens book summary abbey beathan disclaimer. The stories need to be known from a proper translation. During the fierce controversy between the divines of the protestant reformation and those of the roman catholic church. Hitchens laments that the faithful of whatever persuasion have believed what the priests and rabbis and imams tell them about what the unbelievers think 10, and it follows he rages that priests, rabbis and imams would presume to know or communicate what atheists think and why. The result is a devastating critique of religious faith. God is not great christopher hitchens audio book p2 duration. Download and keep this book for free with a 30 day trial. The work of philosophers and theologians is useful, but christians can always use the reminder that the fullest revelation of god is in jesus christ. Read the book of god in the light of the higher criticism by george william foote available from rakuten kobo.
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