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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Religious texts are clearly man-made, as their historical inaccuracies and selective accounts prove.
Chapter 2: Miracles are not as miraculous as they first appear.
Chapter 3: Far from being the guardians of morality, religions are positively immoral in their teachings.
Chapter 4: Like a dictatorship, religious belief is totalitarian.
Chapter 5: The way religions treat children demonstrates how blind faith encourages people to act irrationally and bizarrely.
Chapter 6: Religions are incapable of being tolerant – they must interfere in the lives of others.
Chapter 7: Though persecuted by religions, freethinkers have always been a driving force in the progression of knowledge.
Chapter 8: Religion and science are fundamentally incompatible.
Chapter 9: As long as religion exists, it will attempt to impose itself on the rest of society – it must be fought against.
Description
God is Not Great traces the development of religious belief from the earliest, most primitive ages of humankind through to today. It attempts to explain the dangerous implications of religious thought and the reasons why faith still exists today. It also helps explain why scientific theory and religious belief can never be reconciled.
Who Should Listen
- Those who want to know how religions developed
- Anyone who wants to understand the fight between religious and scientific thinking
- Those who wish to see the negative aspects of religious belief