What You'll Learn:
The late Christopher Hitchens pulls no punches in his criticism of religious faith. Hitchens argues that religion doesn’t pave the path to salvation but to despair and destruction.
Key Insights:
- Life without religion is more tolerant, rational, and humane.
- We aren’t hard-pressed to find evidence of religion’s pernicious, disastrous effects.
- The average young child today knows more about the world than religious intellectuals from past eras.
- Abrahamic faiths build on backward, provincial “revelations” that no longer make sense, but adherents still expect the world to embrace them.
- We need to be disabused of the rosy caricatures of peaceful eastern religions that many people hold.
- Our world’s and species’ best shot at continued survival and thriving lies in holding onto Enlightenment principles.
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