God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher HitchensMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I read this before, but after Hitchens' passing, I picked up this audiobook since it is narrated by Hitch, and this a chance to hear his voice again. His radical, anti-theistic atheism is so overt I don't think he is going to win any converts here, but for laughing at those god-hugger, there is a lot of material here. On this second read, some things that stood out to me is this time:
1) the quirky roots of Mormonism (I always like that story) with Joseph Smith's wife not abiding the BS and challenging a re-revealing of identical text
2) The illiterate Muhammad and the fetishistic fixation as unalterable a vowel-less antique Koran
and,
3) Maybe Jesus was a historical personage, as this explains the tortured contradiction of Herod, Cyrenius the governor (Luke 2:2), and the census to all point to a non-date but bring in biblical prophecy and explain both Nazareth and Bethlehem.
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