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May, 2007 christopher hitchens is an oldfashioned and very entertaining village atheist, trying to pick arguments with the good citizens on their way to church. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a manmade wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. Jan 06, 2014 god is not great christopher hitchens audio book p6 imperfect edit duration. May 01, 2007 the authors have created a sort of antibook of virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power.