{"id":152,"date":"2009-02-21T13:08:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T19:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.consider.org\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2009-02-21T13:08:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T19:08:46","slug":"a-review-of-christopher-hitchens%e2%80%99-god-is-not-great-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consider.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/a-review-of-christopher-hitchens%e2%80%99-god-is-not-great-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"A Review of Christopher Hitchens\u2019 God Is Not Great – Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is an outline of my review of Christopher Hitchens’, “God is not Great<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Part I<\/a> – Chapter One
\nThe definition of Atheism. Do “the faithful” commit more crimes? Are atheist dogmatic?<\/p>\n

Part II<\/a> – Chapter One
\nthe “four irreducible objections to religious faith.”\u00a0 Religion and sex<\/p>\n

Part III<\/a> – Chapter One.
\nDo believers claim to know everything?\u00a0 “essential knowledge”<\/p>\n

Part IV<\/a> – Chapter One
\nAre we evil, or just partly rational?\u00a0 What is \u2018reason.’ Worldviews.\u00a0 Reason and the existence of God.<\/p>\n

Part V<\/a> – Chapter One
\n\u00a0The core weaknesses of atheism: rational evil.\u00a0 Eugenics and Social Darwinism.<\/p>\n

Part VI<\/a> – Chapter One
\nthe “Secular injunction” in Philippians 4:8\u00a0 Truth, Justice, Lovely, Pure, and Virtue.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Part VII<\/a>– Chapter Two
\nWhy aren’t believers happy?\u00a0 Christians who interfere in the lives of others? Charitable giving.<\/p>\n

Part VIII<\/a> – Chapter Two.
\nHitchens and Dennis Prager. \u00a0\u00a0Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

Part IX<\/a> – Chapter Three.
\nJews, Muslim and Pork. \u00a0Do prohibitions grow out of repressed desire? Being Holy.<\/p>\n

Part X<\/a> – Chapter Four.
\nReligion and Health. \u00a0Conspiracy theories. the fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc or false cause.<\/p>\n

Part XI<\/a> – Chapter Four.
\nCardinal Alfonso Lopez de Trujillo and condoms, and the politicization of science.<\/p>\n

Part XII<\/a> – Chapter Four.
\nReligion and Medicine, The fallacy of Hasty Generalization, the Black death. The germ theory of disease.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Part XIII<\/a> – Chapter Five
\nThe Metaphysical claims of Religion. Atheist’s demand for proof. Religion vs. the behavioral sciences.<\/p>\n

Part XIV<\/a> – Chapter Five
\nThe secularization of society.\u00a0 The fallacies of appeal to the people and appeal to misplaced authority. Ockham’s razor.\u00a0 Do we need God to explain the universe? probable arguments. deductive logic and inductive logic.<\/p>\n

Part XV<\/a> – Chapter Six
\nHitchens distorted view of religion. Religion and Superstition.\u00a0 Miracles, evil, and the problem of evil.<\/p>\n

Part XVI<\/a> – Chapter Six
\nArguments from design. Paley. Hitchens argument concerning death and the universe.\u00a0 Design and purpose.<\/p>\n

Part XVII<\/a> – Chapter Six
\nSpecific arguments for Design.\u00a0 Myths used to support evolution. evolution is unfalsifiable.<\/p>\n

Part XVIII<\/a> – Chapter Seven
\nThe Old Testament.\u00a0 Hitchens view of revelation. The Ten Commandments. Slavery. stoning of children for disobedience<\/p>\n

Part XIX<\/a> – Chapter Eight
\nThe New Testament. “if English was good enough for Jesus…”\u00a0 The flat earth. \u00a0Biblical scholarship.\u00a0 Dating the New Testament.<\/p>\n

Part XX<\/a> – Chapter Eight
\nReliability of the Gospels, Liberal Scholarship. Two major Errors of Hitchens.\u00a0 The “other gospels.”\u00a0 Virgin birth. Bart Ehrman.<\/p>\n

Note:\u00a0 I skipped chapter Nine as it dealt with the Koran.<\/p>\n

Part XXI<\/a> – Chapter Ten\u00a0
\nMiracles.\u00a0 Hume. The resurrection. The nature of miracles.\u00a0 Freewill.\u00a0 Proof and evidence.<\/p>\n

Part XXII<\/a> – Chapter Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0
\nChapter 10: The lost of belief.\u00a0\u00a0
\nChapter 11:\u00a0 The origin of religion. The Melanesian “cargo cult” Marjoe Gortner. Mormonism. Chapter 12:\u00a0 The end of religion
\nChapter 13: Does religion make people better? Martin Luther King.\u00a0 Abolition. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Part XXIII<\/a> – Chapter Thirteen\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\nWho is a Christian. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Hitchens refutes the majority of his\u00a0 own book.<\/p>\n

Part XXIV<\/a> – Chapter Thirteen\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\nAre atheist immoral? The foundations of morality. Marriage.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Note:\u00a0 I skipped Chapter Fourteen as it deals with eastern religions.<\/p>\n

Part XXV<\/a> – Chapter Fifteen
\nIs Religion Immoral? Presenting a false picture of the world to the innocent and the credulous. doctrine of blood sacrifice. Atonement.\u00a0 Anti-Semitism. Corporate Guilt.<\/p>\n

Part XXVI<\/a> – Chapter Fifteen
\nAtonement. religious laws that are impossible to obey.<\/p>\n

Part XXVII<\/a> – Chapter Sixteen
\nIs religion child abuse. Abortion.\u00a0 Evolution myths. Eugenics. Circumcision.<\/p>\n

Part XXVIII<\/a> – Chapter Seventeen
\nAtheists and the evils of the 20th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 The definition of religion. “the totalitarian mind-set.”<\/p>\n

Part XXIX<\/a> – Chapter Seventeen
\nHitchens attempts to link 20th<\/sup> century evils to religion. Christians who risked their lives to save others.\u00a0 Fascism and Christianity.<\/p>\n

Part XXX<\/a> – Chapter Seventeen
\nThe problem with focusing on the evil in others. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Part XXXI<\/a> – Chapter Eighteen
\nThe Resistance of the Rational.\u00a0 Galileo. Socrates. Gibbon. The Fall of Rome.<\/p>\n

Part XXXII<\/a> – Chapter Nineteen
\nA New Enlightenment.\u00a0 Lessing. Faith and Reason. Worldviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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