God Is Not Great By Christopher Hitchens

Atheists, Christopher Hitchens, asserts that religion is not only unnecessary for morality, but actually impedes

and Christopher Hitchens debated the topic of the existence of God and represented differing positions. For this debate Frank Turek represented the affirmative side which stated a belief in the existence of God. Frank Turek has a Doctorate in Apologetics as well as a Masters in Public Administration. He is also is a speaker, author, columnist for multiple websites, and a coauthor of two books including, I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist. Debating against him is Christopher Hitchens who represented

In his book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens dissects and criticizes the various claims of religions and the tragic events that have been caused by various religions. The title of the book sums up the arguments of Hitchens in this book in the fact that he makes many arguments of why “religion poisons everything.” The majority of the chapters in this book discuss why he believes religion to be a manmade notion that has led to more trouble than anything else in

Telling stories in great detail, whether verbally, or written down, has always been a part of human civilization among various cultures. Thus by knowing what our ancestors honored or thought to be entertaining, while passing down cultural values, we too are able to learn from them and put such knowledge into a modern context. Particularly dealing with the Christian religion/holy bible that was forcibly spread throughout the world with colonialization, many stories interpreted from it produces various

The term New Atheism means modern atheism and four people: Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkings. The four of them and many others struggle that the issue of religion has equal status to all other issues in public discourse, i.e. that religion, like everything else, should be criticized and questioned. Their books have experienced a large readership and popularity throughout Europe, particularly the UK, and across America. Some of them are: Sam Harris: • “The End

According to the speech, William Lane Craig claimed on how God does exist and also why God existing is considerably more liable to be valid than God not existing. Despite the fact that he is Catholic, he opened his verbal confrontation by saying that he would "approach today evening time's question rationally, from the outlook of reason and contention." Inside his open deliberation, he obviously plots his reasons with reference to why he trusts God exists. He likewise says that the calibrating of the universe

1) “Does Science Make the Belief in God Obsolete?” by Kenneth Miller and Christopher Hitchens debate with no date of the discussion. 2) Biology professor Kenneth Miller’s central argument is that science should not undermine one’s faith in God. “Science itself does not contradict the hypothesis of God.” He makes this argument by stating that science explains the things that God has made and in doing so, trying to prove the existence of God through natural or scientific means does not

answer the question “hows” of life. Yet, it also needs tradition, faith in religion or other core belief system, to answer the “whys.” As shown in Maimonides’ Intro to Mishnah Sanhedrin Chapter 10, “Sacks, the Great Partnership,” and the debate between Rabbi David Wolpe and Christopher Hitchens, reason provides explanations for the processes that allow the world to work the way it does, while tradition provides meaning in life and an understanding of purpose. According to Maimonides in the Intro to

humanity’s growth, a divine figure/God has heavily affected human behavior in history. Whether or not if one believes God to exist or not, his presence and influence through the actions of people are undeniable. John Murray in his novel The Problem of God, poises the question on whether if the presence of God has been detrimental to human society and if freeing one from faith in God will allow humanity to grow and flourish or whither and decay? (Murray 120-212) God influences us in three major aspects

Christopher Hitchens the author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything uses his own personal experiences with religions and gives us an insight as to why he feels that religion is flawed. Throughout his book he uses arguments that is justified by modern science and social issues that uses religion as an excuse to execute unreasonable actions. His arguments are from the consumption of certain meats to the war against nations just for defending the righteousness of each religion. Hitchens