This is fine, so long as one accepts God is Not Great as a less than rigorous look at religion. Often Hitchens writes about the extremes of religion and neglects the middle-ground: the comfortably religious who rub shoulders with the secular.

In making his arguments, Hitchens disregards all vestiges of good within organised religion and seeks out only the poisonous elements – attacking them with unbidden vigour and incisive arguments. It is an unflinching and challenging stance. Hitchens response is simple: face the world in all its glory and horror – there is no shame in recoiling at its desperate condition, but do not let weakness and superstition allow you to bury your head in the sand and choose a comfortable lie over an uncomfortable truth. The barrage of attacks that Hitchens launches towards religious targets seems to leave little room for the frailty of humanity, never accepting an excuse for those drawn to spirituality seeking solace or to fill a hole within themselves. Hitchens’s spite towards the practitioners of religious behaviour - the misguided dullards labouring under antiquated ideas and practices as he would have them – is both exhilarating and troubling. Here the reader will not find a rigorous dissection of contemporary religion but instead an annihilation of its evils. This is not a book to convert the theist, or even pander to the middle ground: this is a rampant polemic an unrepentant attack on religion and Hitchens unloads with all his power and eloquence.

How one reacts to his use of logic will likely depend on one's own position, but undoubtedly Hitchens's writes to provoke a response. Hitchens doesn't baulk the big targets either engaging Islam, and individuals like Mother Teresa and Gandhi. He argues cogently and compellingly that there is no evidence for a god or transcendent deity of any kind dealing with more than just the Christian religion and discussing a great breadth of issues in sweeping arguments. Hitchens is a champion of reason and logic – revelling in the wonders of nature and the curiosity of mankind as we uncover more about the world around us. God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007) is Christopher Hitchens's vitriolic attack on organised religion, which, in his own inimitable style, he argues, is ignorant, intolerant, and detrimental to the progress of culture and science.

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