![]() ![]() He is probably the smartest thinker of his generation of baby-boomers in the English-speaking world. ![]() ![]() All, truly all, are meant and are buried alive: Catholics, Protestants, Muslims-whether Shiite or Sunni-Hindus, Buddhists, Osho-faithful and, last but not least, Jews as well, to whom Hitchens, with his Jewish mother, belongs at least in the sense of descent. Do recall that this is not about religious fundamentalism or fanaticism but rather religion as such. Finally he shoots it through with the bullets of logic and, just in case, he lets the guillotine of irony fly down on its neck. Then he lets it quarter itself on its own contradictions, before boiling the pieces in the oil of his righteous anger. First he slips the noose of natural-scientific reason around the neck of piety. One has to give it to Hitchens who, as executioner, does a thorough job. In God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens-for weeks on the bestseller list in the US and the UK-religion is devastated. There is always something edifying about attending an execution, especially if it’s not a human but an idea that is being dispatched from life to death. This review of the German edition of Christopher Hitchens’s God Is Not Great appeared in Die Welt. ![]()
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