Why do people have to be such haters

By beatriz on 9/2/08 6:16pm
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Someone recently brought this book to my attention, it is called God Is Not Great, How Religion Poisons Everything. A little harsh don't you think Christopher Hitchens? A good friend of mine gave it to me because he knew I would be blogging about God and he thought this would give me some ideas. He's right it should provide lots of topics of conversation, but having been raised a good Catholic girl I can't bring myself to even open it's pages. The truth is that I am afraid of reading this book.

I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore and I don't go to church unless my mom makes me. And I long ago stopped believing in God, almost around the same time I stopped believing in the tooth fairy. But for some unknown reason I don't want to hear what Mr. Hitchens has to say about God. It's not that I would disagree or feel offended since I haven't actually read his book. It's that I don't really want to read about why he doesn't believe in God or religion.

So Christopher Hitchens hates God, does he have to tell the whole world about it? Has anyone actually read this book? Am I going to burn in hell for eternity if I read it?

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Well, I have read this book

Submitted by kagemusha2008 on 9/10/08 6:12am.

Well, I have read this book to which you are referring. Hitchens makes some very interesting comments on religion and various beliefs and religious leaders. He feels that religion is harmful...promoting intolerance and hippocracy, but my concern is that atheism seems to becoming"Atheism"...Is this the new religion? The dogma of the age....is that religion is harmful...but fanaticism (I am not saying that Hitchens is a fanatic, but merely we need to be careful) of any form engenders exclusiveness and hatefulness. Will there be a world where believing in God will become an "blasphemous" and unacceptable?

Well, I have read this book

Submitted by kagemusha2008 on 9/10/08 6:16am.

Well, I have read this book to which you are referring. Hitchens makes some very interesting comments on religion and various beliefs and religious leaders. He feels that religion is harmful…promoting intolerance and hippocracy, but my concern is that atheism seems to becoming ”Atheism”…Is this the new religion? The dogma of the age….is that religion is harmful…but fanaticism (I am not saying that Hitchens is a fanatic, but merely we need to be careful) of any form engenders exclusiveness and hatefulness. Will there be a world where believing in God will become “blasphemous” and unacceptable?