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God and Christopher Hitchens

God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything , by Christopher Hitchens. New York: Twelve/Hachette Book Group, 2007. 317 pp. $14.99. ISBN 978-0-446-69796-5. I am really disappointed with this book. Christopher Hitchens, the irrepressible, irreverent, irascible, and irreligious journalist has emerged as one of the "new atheists," and I had supposed that I would find reasoned arguments in this book. Not so. I do not spent a lot of time reading in the literature written by atheists, old or new. At various times I have needed to engage an author = s thought because of my interest in the matters about which he or she was writing (philosophy, psychology, sociology, economics, etc.), and those became the entré to my encounter with atheist sensibilities or positions. On the other hand, popular writers on science and religion, or culture and religion, or media and religion, or whatever and religion, bemoan or celebrate the fact that a new crop of intellectuals has