{"product":{"product_id":"0446697966","title":"God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything","price":"11.99","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41bLwpXe+lL._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0446697966"},"comments":[{"body":"“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”\r\n\r\n― Steven Weinberg\r\n\r\nI suggest you give this book a read if you want to learn just how wrong you are on all of this religious denialism you're presenting here:\r\n\r\n[God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything](https://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446697966)","subreddit_name":"atheism","author":"lilrabbitfoofoo"},{"body":"I'm on the Peterson sub reddit lol..  I'm here for the debate, I enjoy having my ideas challenged and tested because it helps me find flaws in my arguments and ideals and hopefully get closer to the truth... \r\n\r\nI don't find many right wingers who have more than a bumper sticker idea of what they believe in and why they believe in it.. I love to debate about Ayn Rand, the founders of this nation and what it was actually founded on, and western civilization, human rights, and liberal democracy, my Father a pot smoking hippy turned radical right wing religious zealot who got arrested protesting vietnam in the 60's and arrested again protesting abortion in the 90's got me interested in debating about these things from an early age about 10 years old when I started reading political and religious books, I'm somewhat knowledgeable in history, theology, anthropology, and psychology, and love to learn and I take advantage the opportunity to test what I believe in, conversation with people who agree with your point view is boring, and often a complete waste of time..\r\n\r\nMy problem with Peterson's view of \"postmodernism\" is that while I agree that the death of commonly held truths in a society is dangerous and we should try to get back to some common foundational things to agree on as a basis for truth and values I don't think that that basis should be an ideology that has repeatedly been the driving force behind willful injustice and atrocities but has been the justification for many genocides.. In a reddit post its hard to put it better than Christopher Hitchens did in his book [God Is Not Great..](https://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446697966)","subreddit_name":"JordanPeterson","author":"XXdotXXcoXX"},{"body":"well, i was never very religious to begin with but then i read Christopher Hitchen's [\"God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything\"](https://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446697966) and that was the absolute end of me and religion","subreddit_name":"AskReddit","author":"nucumber"},{"body":"Let's not forget that this has been baked into people's heads since the \"Garden of Eden\" fable. The founding \"document\" for the religion says that knowledge comes from possessed snakes and is bad and you get kicked out of paradise if you dare get educated. I'm sure there are kids books with pictures that have it as a bedtime story.\r\nAs the dearly missed Christopher Hitchens said, \"[Religion poisons everything](https://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446697966)\".","subreddit_name":"politics","author":"ImpeachDrumph"},{"body":"I met Hitchens several times and I own several books that he personally signed for me.\r\n\r\nYou might want to actually completely read one of his books before you start claiming to know what he thought and how he felt.\r\n\r\n\r\nMight I recommend you start with **[God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything](https://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446697966)**?","subreddit_name":"Syracuse_comments","author":"hobbes305"},{"body":"Secular ideologies can be just as authoritarian as religious ideologies. re: communist china, the state is their \"religion\" and it will crush any potential challenger, including atheists. It is not a fair representation of a potential secular society. Secular humanism would be a far more ideal \"state philosophy.\"\r\n\r\nI'm not as well versed in Mughals or House of Baghdad. The Renaissance was inspired by humanism and was a break from the theocracy that came before, and further distanced itself with the enlightenment.\r\n\r\n[There's an argument that any cultural human achievement, especially those within theocratic societies, could have been just as good if not better if they occurred in a secular humanist society](https://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446697966)","subreddit_name":"Tinder","author":"BABYFETUSGOBBLER"},{"body":"[God Is Not Great. How Religion Poisons Everything.](https://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446697966/ref=sr_1_1?crid=5AX4YU0Q06M8\u0026amp;keywords=god+is+not+great+how+religion+poisons+everything\u0026amp;qid=1554608380\u0026amp;s=gateway\u0026amp;sprefix=god+is+not+great%2Caps%2C128\u0026amp;sr=8-1) by Christopher Hitchens.\r\n\r\nHe said it best. \r\n\r\nedit: I sincerely encourage you to read it. ","subreddit_name":"atheism","author":"MyDogFanny"},{"body":"\u0026gt;I don’t see any reason to assume studying brain physiology will be the only method\r\n\r\n\"God did it\" is not an honest possibility in the race.\r\n\r\n\u0026gt; which is informative for ethics \r\n\r\nWe know ancient mythology fall short of being beneficial. [God is Not Great. How Religion Poisons Everything](https://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446697966) by Christopher Hitchens is a good read. \r\n\r\n\u0026gt; some scientific discovery will show free will doesn’t exist. \r\n\r\nIt may be that emergent properties like free will and consciousness will never be understood from a biological bases. If this is the case and we never know why we experience these things, it still is not evidence for a god.\r\n\r\n\u0026gt; I don’t see any reason to assume talking about free will and consciousness isn’t well defined \r\n\r\nThis is not an assumption. It's a fact. LOL Just like the word \"god\".\r\n\r\n\u0026gt; But why not instead assume that scientific language is inadequate because it is inappropriate language for the task? \r\n\r\nScientific methodology may be inadequate for explaining some of our human experiences. I think I made this point. Again, god is not an answer for questions we do not have the answers to. Saying \"god did it\" adds nothing to our understanding. We don't know why lighting occurs, for example. What does \"god did it\" add to our understanding?\r\n\r\n\u0026gt; It assumes without argument scientific language is the one which is actually *correct* \r\n\r\nNo, this is your claim and the claim of theists to create a straw man argument, not mine and not that of scientists. Science is the best method we have of understanding the physical/material world. ","subreddit_name":"DebateReligion","author":"MyDogFanny"},{"body":"Religious belief is the belief in the reality of the mythological, supernatural, or spiritual aspects of a religion. All religious beliefs are evil. This sounds blunt, but [I am not alone or extreme in believing this is the case.](http://www.amazon.com/God-Is-Not-Great-Everything/dp/0446697966)\r\n\r\nEquality and the golden rule aren't religious beliefs. Those are simply good practices that a religion has suggested its followers live by (i.e. religious practices). There are plenty of good life tips that are passed down as part of a religion (e.g. meditation, mindfulness, etc.). But all of those can be followed with zero religious influence. To the extent that they are advised to be followed because a past holy person or deity advised it... well, that becomes a dangerous path. But a practice that is based on ethics or science (not deities or spirituality) is not inherently religious.","subreddit_name":"news","author":"za3keaxi"},{"body":"That's a mildly-defensible logical position, but once you realize that you are smart enough to say \"there's no such thing as a flying spaghetti monster\" and that no one has to prove 100% that it doesn't exist for you to use your brain and make the \"bold statement\" that a magical flying invisible being made of spaghetti doesn't exist .... you will realize why you are an atheist and not an agnostic. Just give it a few years of listening to ridiculous explanations for why there might be a God. \"Who can really know?!\" Umm, you can. I bet that you find it more than \"not very plausible\". You know it's bullshit. So instead of dancing around with philosophical possibilities and definitions of the word \"know\", just be honest with yourself. For all intents and purposes, to the extent that anything is a fact (e.g. how can you prove anything at all?!?!), it's a fact: there is no God and all spiritual aspects of all religions are lies. Just because there are some good life tips mixed in does not make the spirituality of any religion any more sane.\r\n\r\nAs for religion being evil, I would start by suggesting that you read a book by Christopher Hitchens, such as [God is Not Great: Why Religion Poisons Everything](http://www.amazon.com/God-Is-Not-Great-Everything/dp/0446697966). You may come to agree that saying God doesn't exist is more than my right; it's important for humanity and no more arrogant than saying that China is a real place on the other side of the planet.","subreddit_name":"technology","author":"za3keaxi"},{"body":"Its in his book \"God is not Great, How religion Poisons everything\" in the chapter \"A Short Digression on the Pig\".\r\n\r\nPage 40 in this version: http://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446697966/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1264538928\u0026amp;sr=8-1","subreddit_name":"atheism","author":"[deleted]"},{"body":"OP could add [God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything](https://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446697966) for a little light reading as well. \r\n\r\nShe might get the message that a 5th Bible next year is a wasted effort.","subreddit_name":"atheism","author":"T1mac"},{"body":"1. The God Delusion\r\n2. [God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything](https://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446697966), by Christopher Hitchens\r\n3. [Why I Am Not a Christian](https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Essays-Religion-Related-Subjects/dp/0671203231), by Bertrand Russell","subreddit_name":"TrueAtheism","author":"awezumsaws"},{"body":"Great book!\r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446697966","subreddit_name":"Damnthatsinteresting","author":"xoaphexox"},{"body":"[this is the only good atheism theory fight me bitch](https://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446697966)","subreddit_name":"DemocratsforDiversity","author":"potatobac"}]}