Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as one of the most
prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time takes on his biggest
subject yet--the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. With his
unique brand of erudition and wit, Hitchens describes the ways in which
religion is man-made. God did not make us, he writes. We made God. He
explains the ways in which religion is immoral: We damage our children by
indoctrinating them. It is a cause of sexual repression, violence, and
ignorance. It is a distortion of our origins and the cosmos. In the place of
religion, Hitchens offers the promise of a new enlightenment through science
and reason, a realm in which hope and wonder can be found through a strand of
DNA or a gaze through the Hubble Telescope.
