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Author: Christopher Hitchens

About the Author: He is a British-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, literary and religious critic, social critic and journalist. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of more than 30 books, including five collections of political, cultural, and literary essays. His polemical rhetoric made him a central topic of public discourse, resulting in him as an intellectual and controversial figure. Contributed to New Statesman, The Nation, The Weekly Standard, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Slate, Free Inquiry, and Vanity Fair. Describing himself as a democratic socialist, Marxist and anti-totalitarian, he broke with the political left after describing it as the “lukewarm reaction” of the Western left to the debate over The Satanic Verses, followed by the left’s embrace of Bill Clinton and the anti-NATO war movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. the last century. His support for the war on Iraq further separated him. His writings included criticism of public figures such as Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Mother Teresa and Diana, Princess of Wales. He was the older brother of conservative journalist and author Peter Hitchens. He also called for the separation of church and state. As a critic of divinity, he regards notions of a deity or a higher power as universalistic beliefs that restrict individual freedom. He advocated freedom of expression and scientific discovery, and that it trumps religion as a moral code of conduct for human civilization. His famous statement, “What can be affirmed without evidence can be denied without evidence” became known as the Hitchens Code.

God Is Not Great book pdf download By Christopher Hitchens

الإله ليس عظيمًا: كيف يسمم الدين كل شيء (بالإنجليزية: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything)‏ هو كتابٌ صادرٌ عام 2007 للكاتب البريطانيّ-الأمريكيّ كريستوفر هيتشنز وفيه يقيم الدعوى ضد الدين النظاميّ. نُشر الكتاب أولًا تحت عنوان “الإله ليس عظيمًا: الدعوى ضد الدين God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion” في المملكة المتحدة، ونشرته “أتلانتيك بوكس Atlantic Books” ونشرته Twelve في الولايات المتحدة تحت عنوان “الإله ليس عظيمًا: لماذا يسمم الدين كل شيء God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything” وأعادت أتلانتيك بوكس نشره بلا عنوان فرعيّ. يصف هيتشنز الدين النظاميّ بأنه “عنيف وغير منطقيّ وغير متسامح، ويؤدي للقبليّة والعنصريّة والتعصب، يعادي التساؤل الحر ويحتقر المرأة وقسري في ما يخص الأطفال” يعزز الدين الطائفيّة مما يجعل ضميره على المحك. يدعم هيتشنز موقفه في الكتاب خلال مزيج من القصص الشخصيّ والحكايات التاريخيّة الموثّقة والتحليل النقديّ للنصوص الدينيّة. تتركز تعليقاته حول الأديان الإبراهيمية مع التعرُّض لغيرها من الأديان مثل الهندوسيّة والبوذيّة. استقبل الكتاب مراجعات مختلطة ولكنه بيع جيدًا.

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